Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

The following is a small collection of motivational and 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. Also see Motivational Quotes for a huge list of quotes.

"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

Creating Habits - An Easier Approach

If creating good, effective habits is the way towards achieving what we want in life, how come everyone just doesn't pick a habit they want to form and just do it? The main reason is because sticking to an action long enough for it to become a habit isn't all that easy. A lot of will power and reminders are usually involved and as a result, we end up starting over and over again.

So here's what you do. Take an existing habit that you've already formed and attach a new habit to it. For example, you can use your habit of taking a shower at night to attach it to a new habit of doing push ups for example. The existing habit will already be triggered, once that happens, start the new habit that you want to create. This can be done before or after the existing habit.

The reason why this works is because one of the hardest things about forming a new habit is triggering it to occur. Since you have to constantly remind yourself to do what you need to do until it becomes an actual habit, it's easy to forget. By using an existing habit, the trigger is already there.

A habit is just a set of actions that play out once a trigger occurs. With this habit linking method, all you're doing is adding on more actions. So with the example with showering and working out, the habit is no longer just showering, it's working out and then showering.

Try it out for yourself. Choose an existing habit and attach it to a new one.