The document contains a collection of motivational quotes about success, persistence, goals, and personal growth. Some key themes that emerge across multiple quotes are:
- Success requires hard work, perseverance, and not giving up in the face of challenges or failures.
- Having a plan, taking action, and continuous self-improvement are important for achieving goals and finding fulfillment.
- Maintaining a positive attitude and believing in oneself can help one overcome obstacles and achieve more.
3. "The sad fact is that people are poor
because they have not yet
decided to be rich. People are
overweight and unfit because
they have not yet decided to be thin
and fit. People are inefficient
time wasters because they haven't yet
decided to be highly
productive in everything they do."
- Brian Tracy
4. "You were born to win, but to be a
winner, you must plan to win,
prepare to win, and expect to
win."
- Zag Ziglar
5. "If you want to go somewhere, it is
best to find someone who has
already been there."
- Robert Kiyosaki
6. "In the confrontation between
the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins - not
through strength,
but through persistence."
- Buddha
7. "It is not the place, nor the condition,
but the mind alone that can make
anyone happy or miserable."
- Roger L'Estrange
8. "You are the only person on
earth who can use your ability."
- Zig Ziglar
9. "Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be
done and why. Then do it."
- Robert Heinlein
12. "Empty pockets never held
anyone back. Only empty heads
and empty hearts can do that."
- Norman Vincent Peale
13. "The best way to predict the
future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
14. "There are two kinds of
failures: Those who thought
and never did, and those who
did and never thought."
- Laurence Peter
15. "I do the best I know how, the
very best I can,
and I mean to keep doing so
until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln
16. "The best way to find yourself
is to lose
yourself in the service of
others."
- Gandhi
17. "Give so much time to the
improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticise
others."
- Christian D. Larson
18. "Anything’s possible. You can be
told you have a 90% chance
or a 50% chance or a 1% chance,
but you have to believe, and you
have to fight."
- Lance Armstrong
19. "Keep your face to the sunshine
and you never see the shadow."
- Helen Keller
20. "Always bear in mind that your
own resolution to succeed
is more important than any
other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
21. "Never leave that till tomorrow
which you can do today."
- Benjamin Franklin
22. "Simply put, you believe
that things or people make
you unhappy,
but this is not accurate. You
make yourself unhappy."
- Wayne Dyer
23. "Whenever you are asked if you can
do a job, tell'em, ''certainly I can!' -
and get busy and find out how to do
it."
- Theodore Roosevelt
24. "I never see what has been
done; I only see what
remains to be done."
- Marie Curie
25. "It is not necessary to
change. Survival is not
mandatory."
- W. Edwards Deming
26. "Good judgment comes from
experience, and often
experience comes from bad
judgment."
- Rita Mae Brown
27. "If you don't like something,
change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou
28. "The man who does not read
good books has no advantage
over
the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain
29. "I don't know the key to
success, but the key to failure
is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
30. "A quitter never wins and a
winner never quits."
- Napoleon Hill
31. "Nothing is a waste of time if
you use the experience
wisely."
- Auguste Rodin
32. "There is nothing better
than the encouragement of
a good friend."
- Katherine Hathaway
34. "The greatest gift that you can
give to others is
the gift of unconditional love
and acceptance."
- Brian Tracy
35. "The quality of a person's life is
in direct proportion to their
commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field
of endeavor."
- Vince Lombard
36. "Whenever you're in conflict with
someone, there is one factor that
can make the difference between
damaging your relationship and
deepening it. That factor is
attitude."
- William James
37. "Luck is what happens when
preparation meets
opportunity."
- Seneka
38. "The bad news is time flies. The
good news is you're the pilot."
- Michael Altshuler
39. "Action may not always bring
happiness, but there is
no happiness without action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
40. "A slave is one who waits for
someone to come and free
him."
- Ezra Pound
41. "If I play my best, I can win
anywhere in the world against
anybody."
- Ray Floyd
42. "My life as a writer consists of
1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline."
- John Irving
43. "Your power is proportional to
your ability to relax."
- David Allen
44. "Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at
all."
- Dale Carnegie
51. "Without ambition one starts
nothing. Without work one
finishes nothing. The prize will
not be sent to you. You have to
win it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. "It doesn't matter where you
are coming from.
All that matters is where you
are going."
- Brian Tracy
53. “ If we are to remain mission
focused, as we must be if we are
to be relevant in an uncertain age,
then abandoning those things
that do not further the mission is
a leadership imperative”
- Frances Hesselbein
54. "In life, as in chess,
forethought wins."
- Charles Buxton
55. "Dependent people need others to
get what they want.
Independent people can get what
they want through their
own efforts. Interdependent people
combine their own
efforts with the efforts of others to
achieve their greatest success."
- Stephen Covey
56. "Until you value yourself, you
will not value your time.
Until you value your time, you
will not do anything with it."
- M. Scott Peck
57. "A good plan today is better
than a great plan tomorrow."
- George S. Patton
58. "That are you doing today to
become a champion?"
- Drayton McLane Jr
59. "Everyone thinks of changing
the world, but no one thinks
of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
60. “We’re totally dependent on the
ideas and talent
of our people, so we have to help
them
feel great about themselves.”
- Bob Jeffrey, North America division
president, J.Walter Thompson
61. "The ability to discipline yourself
to delay gratification
in the short term in order to enjoy
greater rewards in the long term
is the indispensable prerequisite for
success."
- Brian Tracy
62. Better to fail with honor than
succeed by fraud.
-Sophocles
63. "There are people of spirit and
people of passion, both less
common than one might think.
Rarer still are the people of spirit
and passion. But rarest of all is a
passionate spirit."
-Martin Buber
64. “He who cannot forgive others,
breaks the bridge over which he
himself must pass; for every man
has need to be forgiven.”
– George Herbert
65. "In this world there is always
danger for those who are
afraid of it.“
- George Bernard Shaw