8. Motivate & Recharge

Motivation – We all need it in regular doses . . .

This is a very informal collection of my favourite motivational quotes. This is the most important area for me because if you’re not motivated, nothing gets done.

I’ve had days where I’ve completely fallen off the wagon. We are all human and no matter what anyone tries to tell you, there is no-one that’s got it “all together” all the time. If you’re still feeling low after reading these, please see Tab 7 – Feeling Down – at the very top of this website. In the meantime, enjoy these famous quotes (acknowledgement is given where author is known) . . .

If at first you don’t succeed, change your strategy, not your goal.” (unknown)

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”. (unknown)

“Obstacles are what we see when we take our eye off our goals” (unknown)

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. ~Denis Waitley~

There are only 2 choices; make progress or make excuses.” ~Ellen Mikesell~

“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.” ~Bill Phillips~
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen~

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~Will Rogers~

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” ~Benjamin Disraeli~

“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word “succeed,” you find it simply means to follow through.” ~F.W. Nichol~

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill~

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” ~ General George S. Patton~

“Success … is a result, not a goal.” ~Gustave Flaubert~

“Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed–there is so little competition.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

“Knowing what you want is the first step in getting it.” ~Louise Hart~

“Begin to live as you wish to live.” (unknown)

“Good choices come from experience. Experience comes from bad choices.” (unknown)

“Two rights don’t make a wrong, but three will get you back on the freeway.” ~James Wesley Jackson

You must act as if it is impossible to fail. (unknown)

“The road to someday, leads to the town of nowhere. (unknown)

Procrastination is the silent killer.”~Anthony Robbins

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”~Michael Jordan

“Above all, challenge yourself. You may be surprised by what you can achieve.” (unknown)

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”~Ronald E. Osborn

“You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.” ~Les Brown

“We create the situations & then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place & no thing has any power over us for “WE” are the only thinkers in our mind.” ~Louise Hay

“Success is not a doorway, it’s a staircase.” (unknown)

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”~Peter Marshall

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”~Maureen Dowd

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”~Maurice Seitter

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” ~unknown

“Failure is only the ability to begin again, only this time more wisely.” ~unknown

“Clear your mind of can’t.”~Dr. Samuel Johnson

“One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.” ~L. Tom Perry

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.” ~Alfred Alder

“Someone once asked me “why do you always insist on taking the hard road?” and I replied “why do you assume I see two roads”? ”
~unknown

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” ~Vernon Law

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do.” ~unknown

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”~Roger Bannister

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” ~Tom Landry

“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.” ~Mike Ditka

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” ~George Washington Carver

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?” ~Elbert Hubbard

“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”~Bunker Hunt

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ~Walter Bagehet

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” (unknown)

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.” ~Rob Gilbert

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”~Phyllis Bottome

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t believe everything you think. (unknown)

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got! (unknown)

Success is never final…
Failure is never fatal…
It’s the courage to continue that counts! (unknown)

“Its often your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude.” – Jesse Jackson

“The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill

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Are you weight conscious? . . .

“I can say NO to instant gratification for the purpose of reaching my long term and far more important goal.” (unknown)

Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. – Cher

We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

“Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” (unknown)

The belly is ungrateful–it always forgets we already gave it something. – Russian Proverb

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962. – Rita Rudner

I do hope a few of these got you thinking, encouraged and moving.