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Below are 58 quotes that inspire, encourage and motivate me.
To own my power, to pursue my purpose, in ways that work for me.
“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful. That I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do is shrug and say,”We’ll just have to see.” Dick Fosbury Inventor of the Fosbury Flop and winner of an Olympic gold medal in the High Jump at the Olympic Games Mexico City 1968.
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.” Evelyn Waugh
“It is not that I am so smart, it is just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
“We convince by our presence.” Walt Whitman
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison
“Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.” Mother Teresa
“You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.” Scott Adams
“The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.” Nina Easton
“Insist on yourself. Never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation. But of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession… Do that which is assigned to you and you can not hope too much or dare too much. ” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect the dots looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will connect in the future. You have to believe in something, your gut, living, destiny, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect in your future will give you confidence to follow your heart when it leads you off the well worn path.” Steve Jobs
“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” Tim Fargo
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.” Helen Keller
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe Ruth
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always to that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, and expect to win.” Zig Ziglar
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” Bobby Unser
“Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.” Phantom F. Harlock
“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” Zig Ziglar
“Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning in the second half.” Paul Bryant
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmon
“Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.” Rachael Corrie
“The most common way people give away their power is thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” Guy Finley
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” Zig Ziglar
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” Tony Robbins
“When setting out on a journey do not seek the advice of someone who never left home.” Rumi
“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.” Banksy
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aidous Huxley
“Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.” Zig Ziglar
“Purpose is about a process and a journey, not a destination. I cannot know until I know and knowing just takes what it takes. There are no “silver bullets” or “magic potions”. By accepting that reality, I am given the gift of knowing by not giving up. I am given the gift of knowing by trusting the process, a loving God and myself.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” Guy Finley
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” E.M. Forster.
“If you feel like you don’t fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a new one.” Ross Caligiuri
“Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add specifically your own creation.” Bruce Lee
“If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life that you have imagined…you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” Abraham Lincoln
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision, nothing happens.” Wilfred A. Peterson
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes
“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.” Charles K. Kao
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me.” And when you have found that attitude, follow it.” William James
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet
“Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.” James De La Vega
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It just takes one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never giver up.” Richelle E. Goodrich
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” Arnold Glasgow
You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be.” Elizabeth Alraune
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.” Isabel Allende
“Create your own visual style…let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” Orson Welles
“It is not as important what happened or happens to us, but how we respond to what happened or happens to us.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Lao Tzu
“Adventure is not outside man, it is within.” George Eliot
“Once we start walking, before long we will be able to look back and see how far we have come on our journey, because we did not give up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Big things have small beginnings.” Prometheus
“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” Peter Hagerty
“Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” Sonia Ricotti
“Don’t judge your day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“Our circumstances are not meant to keep us down, but they are meant to build us up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.” Simon Sineck
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing is a waste of time, if you use the experience wisely.” Auguste Rodin
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” Wayne Dyer
“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” Pablo Picasso
“If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
Les Brown
“If you do not like something, change it. If you cannot change it, change the way that you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” Robin Williams, John Keating — Dead Poets Society
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.” Benjamin Watson
“In my experience I have found that adversity is what has made me successful, because I refused to give up because of adversity.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs
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