Monday, November 12, 2007

Inspirational/Motivational

“Your ordinary may be extraordinary to someone else. Never underestimate the difference you make.”
Don McKenna


“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."
Unknown



"Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
David Copperfield


"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
Arthur Ashe

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness is largely a matter of conscious choice.”
Jim Collins



“To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someon else’s spirit whenever you can.”
 Dodinsky, Author

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 
Anais Nin

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield

“I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”
Edward Everett Hale

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”   
Christopher Columbus

“Raise your awareness to your own inner strength and beauty.”   
Dodinsky Author

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
William James

“You have a clean slate every day you wake up.  You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be.  You just have to decide and do it.  Today’s the day.   Say it: this is going to be my day.”
Brendon Burchard

“The footprints you leave each day influence others.  There is no person who at some time, somewhere, does not lead another.”
Unknown

“I am only one.  I cannot do everything but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do to interfere with what I can do.”
Edward Everett Hale

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything.”
Unknown

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself."
Unknown

“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
Dale Carnegie

“Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” 
Christian D. Larson 

“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.”  
Spencer Johnson

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible”. 
Audrey Hepburn 

“We must be the change we want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi


“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.”
J.K. Rowling


“Starting resource positions are a very poor predictor of future industry leadership.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.”
Roy E. Moody


“Anyone running a small company should be enormously encouraged by the fact that there are so many examples of companies that overcame seemingly insuperable resource handicaps and built positions of global leadership.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future


“Only extraordinary goals provoke extraordinary efforts.”
Hamel and Prahalad, Competing for the Future


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


“You always can do more than you think you can do.”
Rick Pitino


“Not all dreams need to be reachable; they just have to fuel your fire, and provide direction and drive.”
Unknown


“What often determines our happiness in life is the step we take after a setback.”
John Izzo


“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
Jim Rohn


“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
Jim Rohn


“The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible.”
Richard M. DeVos


“We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.”
Vaclav Havel


“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
 Henry David Thoreau


“Little plans have no power to stir your blood.”
Robert K. Cooper


“Even when big dreams don’t come true—they almost always change us for the better.”
Robert K. Cooper


“We were born to make a difference, not just a living.”
Robert K. Cooper


“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson


“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.”
Jim Rohn

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t.”
Jan Ashford

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”
Denis Waitley

“What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.”
Friedrich Schiller

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Thomas Carlyle

“Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind.”
Bob Proctor

“Courage is not something we have, it is something we gain one day at a time.”
Unknown

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Swett Marden

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Emerson

“Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.”
Tim McCarver

"None of us is defined by our circumstances, nor are we defined by how other people perceive us. It is up to each one of us to define ourselves, and that is a life's work. Each of us has the ability to lead a dynamic life by pursuing our unique goals and dreams. There are no limits to what you can do."
Stedman Graham

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