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Motivational Statements
| Motivational Statements are in alphabetical order. We have worked hard to insure accuracy. If you find we have an error, please contact us with the proper references. We will update the achieve monthly. Thank you very much. |
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop, Philosopher |
It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. John R. Amos |
| Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. --Greg Anderson |
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. Anonymous |
First find a goal, while working for that goal you'll automatically develop everything you need to reach it. Anonymous |
Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. Anonymous |
Management means helping people to get the best out of themselves, not organizing things. Lauren Appley |
I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible. Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ashe |
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin |
| You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. --Ernie Banks |
One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation. Claude Bernard |
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Ken Blanchard |
Within each of us lies the power of our consent, to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. Richard Boch |
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. H. Boetcker |
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. Les Brown |
Life has no limitations, except the one you make it. Les Brown |
Advice is seldom; and those who want it the most like it the least. Lord Chesterfield |
Action may not always bring happiness. But there is no happiness with action. B. Disraeli |
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. |
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of human will. |
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. Bernard Edmunds |
Whoever us careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein |
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective. William Feather |
Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Harry Fosdick |
To accomplish treat things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France |
People who are good at making excuses are rarely good at anything else. Ben Franklin |
Find purpose, the means will follow. Gandhi |
Great things are not done on impulse. But by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gough |
| Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. --Napoleon Hill |
Most great people have allowed their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill |
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordon |
That some achieve success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. H. Juiolin |
| Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. --Sren Kierkegaard |
Leadership is influence. John Maxwell |
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically upon, must inevitably come to pass. Paul J. Meyer |
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. Earl Nightingale |
| Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. --Leroy "Satchel" Paige |
Lead, follow or get out my way. George Patton |
If you want to get somewhere, you have to know were you want to go and how to get there. Then, never, never, give up. Norman Vincent Peale |
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they do. Norman Vincent Peale |
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. Dennis Peer |
If you are not confused, you are not paying attention. Tom Peters |
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. Charles Richards |
The best motivation is self motivation. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life. Jim Rohn |
One must care about a world one will never see. Bertrand Russell |
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not find himself peace. Albert Schweitzer |
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who cannot repay you. Ruth Smeltzer |
The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, nor lack of courage, but rather lack of will. Jime Somlardi |
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau |
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the job they had at hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. Henry Truman |
Whatever a person's mind dwells on intensely and with firm resolve, that is exactly what he becomes. Unknown |
Leadership is action, not position. Unknown |
Never give up your dreams. When their gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live. Unknown |
| You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. --Denis Waitley |
Many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become. Wallace D. Wattles |
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden |
People often say that motivation does not last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar |