Friday, February 19, 2010

Motivational Quotes - Part 5

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicholas Chamfort

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius

You shouldn’t say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you’re perfectly safe.
James Whistler

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.
Carrie Latet

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
Helen MacInness

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Motivational Quotes - Part 4

When an idea reaches critical mass, there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

The greatest inventions and accomplishments began as the flicker of an idea. This tiny flame was then fueled by desire and faith. Watch out for those tiny little ideas. You have the potential to turn them into great things.
Steve Brunkhorst

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall.
Rick Beneteau

Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do.
Paul J. Meyer

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Nido Qubein

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a sequence of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives.
Charlotte Gray

Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.
Nicole Haislett

Achievement requires more than a vision – it takes courage, resolve and tenacity.
Neil Eskelin

You don’t have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they do.
Mark Victor Hansen

True motivation comes from within – from the willingness to see a dream fulfilled – from the desire to leave the world better than you found it.
Steve Brunkhorst

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

Success is not measured by money or fame but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Stargell

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

It’s usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success. –
Rick Beneteau

Motivational Quotes - Part 3

There isn’t a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
Paul J. Meyer

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.
Scout Cloud Lee

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus

Excellence can be attained if you – care more than others think is wise risk more than others think is safe – dream more than others think is practical – and expect more than others think is possible.
Anonymous

When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Edward Teller

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!
Paul J. Meyer

Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action without exception manifests itself as an actual reality.
Ann Wigmore

Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller

Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means for that future’s creation.
Sara Paddison

Hold a picture of yourself long enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you don’t have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
A. R. Bernard

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the stream of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.
Mark Twain

There are deep, changeless connections inside of us that help us to manage change. Part of our inner self-care involves remembering those very loving people who will always inspire us with their values and courage.
Steve Brunkhorst

Courage is, with love, the greatest gift. We are, each of us, defeated many times but if we accept defeat with cheerfulness, and learn from it, and try another way then we will find fulfillment.
Rosanne Ambrose Brown

Motivational Quotes - Part 2

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Opportunity is like a gold mine. If you don’t pick up the shovel, then you will be living in someone else’s shaft.
Doug Firebaugh

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature´s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir

I saw in the northwest first rise, in the rose-tinted horizon sky, a dark, narrow, craggy cloud, narrow and projecting as no cloud on earth, seen against the rose-tinted sky the crest of a thunderstorm, beautiful and grand.
Henry David Thoreau

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
Max Lucado

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the heart of the child. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

At first a small line of inconceivable splendor emerged on the horizon, which quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every color of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
Ann Radcliffe

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made; our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Robert Browning

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir John Lubbock

Having a heart for making a difference means that something or someone made a difference in my heart first.
Lee Wise

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville

That best portion of a good man s life? His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
Earl Nightingale

Motivational Quotes - Part 1

The scenario can get really delightful, what with a not so perfect world that we have, finding your soul mate in the most strange times is perhaps the most beautiful thing that can happen to any individual.
Robert Johannsen

The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Alfred Armand Montapert

Only you can call me into aliveness. Each time you try to understand and because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings. With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of understanding, you can breathe life into me.
Charles C. Finn

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To love someone is beautiful. To love and admire someone is a beautiful privilege.
Lee Wise

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.
Pearl Buck

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother Teresa

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheever

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.
Eugene Lam

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.
William D. Tammeus

Motivation Videos

Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

How to Get Moving, Stay Fit and Motivated

When it comes to staying or getting into good shape, motivation may be hard to come by. As the seasons change so do our motivation to stay in shape. Holiday schedules, cold winter days, and all those convient gadgets that keep us from drudging up the motivation to get in shape or maintain a daily routine of exercise are definite culprits. But we should be totally aware of the effects that inactivity has on the body.

Listening to music while running, simply finding out the exercises that you truly enjoy, setting particular times when exercise is the main focus of the day, all help you to stay motivated to stay in motion. Developing a habit or pattern for exercising is the best way to stay motivated; your body will become accustomed to working out heavy at a certain time each and every time. Your mind posses the ability to create positive ideas that leads to positive actions allowing you to live a strong and healthy life. Positive self talk can do wonders for motivation as well as just viewing the results of previous attempts (i.e. thinner waistline, six pack, etc). Self encouragement is the ultimate motivation. You’ll have no one to thank but yourself.

Fitness motivation is the essential part of changing your body, so creating a fitness motivation plan maybe the answer for you. For men, setting goals and providing adequate challenges work best. Changing scenery from indoors to outdoors may be the answer. If you just don’t feel like exercising or giving up on an established routine, constantly reminding yourself that the pay off is great will help. Psychological benefits like increased confidence, self-esteem, and relief from anxiety, stress and depression and better sexual performance can be all the motivation that’s needed. Remaining realistic about your goals will also aid in the fight to stay motivated to exercise. Setting a goal that is extremely difficult to obtain is depleting and counterproductive. Achieving a challenging appropriate goal boosts pride, satisfaction and will create more motivation.

Making the exercise routine fun by adding variety in routines, exercises, or persons that you exercise with is a likely way to stick to any exercise routine.

If you are not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to fitness issues, you should consider hiring a professional trainer to help you out with your routine. This can take a lot of the mystery out of getting fit, as your trainer will custom tailor exercises and routines for your bodily needs, so as to maximize the results that you see. This is a slightly costly thing to do, so you should be sure about your commitment to exercising before you spend money to hire a personal trainer. You can also use the amazing technology of the internet to tap the brains of professionals. There are many different blogs that are updated daily with exercise routines that anyone can do.

Heart disease, stroke or diabetes is just some of the unhealthy affects of inactivity in the body. The good news is that studies show without discrepancy that these affects can be prevented or reversed; meaning that switching from a sedentary lifestyle to an active one can be extremely beneficial over time. Exercise alone, without change in diet, can greatly reduce the risks for these diseases even in small amounts. Doing what ever you can to increase your motivation to exercise is the first step to overcoming the lack of motivation to actually do it. Any of the arrays of methods to motivate you will be of great importance. Listening to music while running, simply finding out the exercises that you truly enjoy, setting particular times when exercise is the main focus of the day, all help you to stay motivated to stay in motion. Developing a habit or pattern for exercising is the best way to stay motivated; your body will become accustomed to working out heavy at a certain time each and every time. Your mind posses the ability to create positive ideas that leads to positive actions allowing you to live a strong and healthy life. Positive self talk can do wonders for motivation as well as just viewing the results of previous attempts (i.e. thinner waistline, six pack, etc). Self encouragement is the ultimate motivation. You’ll have no one to thank but yourself.