The following is a small collection of inspirational quotes and sayings that I like. I'll be adding to the list as I find more. Feel free to add any of your own within the comments section.
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns
"The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today." - Anonymous
"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 others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs
"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies." - Ann Landers
"What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." – Buddha
"20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them." - Tony Robbins
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win." - Og Mandino
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." - Napoleon Hill
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George W. Carver
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward." - Thomas Edison
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." - Anonymous
"To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ray Robinson
"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." - Zig Ziglar
Our Habits Create Our Destiny
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
If you want to know why your life is where it is today, look at your past habits. If you want to know where your life will be 10 years from today, look at your current habits.
If you have a habit of eating junk food, it's going to affect your health. If you have a habit of procrastinating, it's going to affect your level of success. The difference between those who are successful in life and those who are failures in life comes down to what they do on a daily basis.
Is it hard to go to the gym just once? Of course not. Is it hard to do it consistently for the rest of your life? It will be at first, but once that action becomes a habit, it's easy. Ask anyone who's working out for years if it's a struggle for them to hit the gym and they'll tell you it's like brushing their teeth, it's automatic.
The point is simple. If you want your life to change, look at your habits. Create the necessary ones and eliminate the counter productive ones. Once you've done that, let time do the rest.
If you want to know why your life is where it is today, look at your past habits. If you want to know where your life will be 10 years from today, look at your current habits.
If you have a habit of eating junk food, it's going to affect your health. If you have a habit of procrastinating, it's going to affect your level of success. The difference between those who are successful in life and those who are failures in life comes down to what they do on a daily basis.
Is it hard to go to the gym just once? Of course not. Is it hard to do it consistently for the rest of your life? It will be at first, but once that action becomes a habit, it's easy. Ask anyone who's working out for years if it's a struggle for them to hit the gym and they'll tell you it's like brushing their teeth, it's automatic.
The point is simple. If you want your life to change, look at your habits. Create the necessary ones and eliminate the counter productive ones. Once you've done that, let time do the rest.
Become a Dreamer Again
Most of us have grand goals and dreams. We want to truly believe that we're capable of great things. We all, at least at one point in our life, were confident in our ability to make those dreams a reality. Along the way, many of us experienced something that took that confidence away, life. We are told of all kinds of limitations from authority figures.
We may have mentioned our dreams to people and all we got back were discouraging words of doubt. This happens over and over until we start to believe that perhaps those people were right. However, we want to prove them wrong so we set a goal and go out to accomplish it only to be dealt with a setback. We try again. And again. Just once more. We now have the experience of the pain of disappointment and failure. Coupled with the laughter of those who told us to get our head out of the clouds, we naturally shrink our dreams down to an uninspiring size. We spend the rest of our life wondering if we were meant for more.
The illusions of what is impossible is true until it's revealed that it's possible. How many stories have we all heard of individuals who defied the odds and ended up doing the seemingly impossible? Although the reality is that not everything is possible, most people don't come anywhere near their true potential so greatly underestimating ourselves is just as "foolish" as setting an impossible goal. Dream big dreams but just make sure the daily tasks that are required from you is within your ability. Remember that there's only 24 hours in a day.
The dreamers of the world are the ones who make life inspiring. Dreamers help to open the eyes of those who have gone through more pain of disappointment than they can handle. The accomplishment of dreamers helps to give the rest of us hope and gets us to question our limitations.
Believing that you can do more and become more and thinking about setting up a plan to make it happen can be scary. The possibility of pain will always be there but who said accomplishing great things is easy? It takes courage to follow your dreams despite past failures and ridicule from those around you. It's why the phrase, "Dare to dream" exists. It's not easy but the more of us who go for our dreams anyway, the more eyes we will reopen.
"It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it."
Isn't it about time you stand up for your dreams and protect it?
We may have mentioned our dreams to people and all we got back were discouraging words of doubt. This happens over and over until we start to believe that perhaps those people were right. However, we want to prove them wrong so we set a goal and go out to accomplish it only to be dealt with a setback. We try again. And again. Just once more. We now have the experience of the pain of disappointment and failure. Coupled with the laughter of those who told us to get our head out of the clouds, we naturally shrink our dreams down to an uninspiring size. We spend the rest of our life wondering if we were meant for more.
The illusions of what is impossible is true until it's revealed that it's possible. How many stories have we all heard of individuals who defied the odds and ended up doing the seemingly impossible? Although the reality is that not everything is possible, most people don't come anywhere near their true potential so greatly underestimating ourselves is just as "foolish" as setting an impossible goal. Dream big dreams but just make sure the daily tasks that are required from you is within your ability. Remember that there's only 24 hours in a day.
The dreamers of the world are the ones who make life inspiring. Dreamers help to open the eyes of those who have gone through more pain of disappointment than they can handle. The accomplishment of dreamers helps to give the rest of us hope and gets us to question our limitations.
Believing that you can do more and become more and thinking about setting up a plan to make it happen can be scary. The possibility of pain will always be there but who said accomplishing great things is easy? It takes courage to follow your dreams despite past failures and ridicule from those around you. It's why the phrase, "Dare to dream" exists. It's not easy but the more of us who go for our dreams anyway, the more eyes we will reopen.
"It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it."
Isn't it about time you stand up for your dreams and protect it?
New Year, New You
If you want to make this year a great year and have basically been setting the same resolutions each year, perhaps it's time to do something a bit different. Instead of focusing on a resolution, focus on developing the right habits.
One of the reasons why many people give up on their goals is because of disappointments, they don't get the results they were expecting fast enough. This could be due to a lot of things such as an unrealistic timeline or circumstances not within their control. If you instead focus on developing habits that will lead to the accomplishment of your goals, the results will be completely under your control. You'll either follow through or you won't. The beauty of it all is that once the habits are developed, it'll just be matter of time before you reach your goals.
For example, instead of setting the goal of losing 50 pounds, focus on developing the habits of exercise and proper diet. When those habits are a part of your everyday life, not only will it become easier as time goes by, you'll also keep the weight off as well. This is the power of habits, whether good or bad, the actions are near automatic.
If you can align those habitual actions towards an outcome that you want, slowly but surely, your life will change.
So drop the resolutions and pick up some good habits.
One of the reasons why many people give up on their goals is because of disappointments, they don't get the results they were expecting fast enough. This could be due to a lot of things such as an unrealistic timeline or circumstances not within their control. If you instead focus on developing habits that will lead to the accomplishment of your goals, the results will be completely under your control. You'll either follow through or you won't. The beauty of it all is that once the habits are developed, it'll just be matter of time before you reach your goals.
For example, instead of setting the goal of losing 50 pounds, focus on developing the habits of exercise and proper diet. When those habits are a part of your everyday life, not only will it become easier as time goes by, you'll also keep the weight off as well. This is the power of habits, whether good or bad, the actions are near automatic.
If you can align those habitual actions towards an outcome that you want, slowly but surely, your life will change.
So drop the resolutions and pick up some good habits.
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