Quotes have the power to spark change, as we all know change is the first step to real progress. Because of this I have compiled some of my favorite quotes for your viewing pleasure. Without further adieu, here they are.
“Hard work can out-do genetics!!”
”Our fears don’t stop death,… they stop life.”
“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.”
”I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy… I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”
“Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you results.”
“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the power of our words, we would prefer silence to anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and strengths. Our limitations begin in our hearts where we can always replace negative with positive.”
“You can have results or excuses. Not both”
“I was not delivered into this world in defeat nor does failure flow through my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, walk, to merge with the sheep. I will not hear those who weep and complain for their thoughts are contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure…Is not my destiny.”
”If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone…deal with it!!”
“Failure does not mean defeat; to succeed you must fail first.”
There are two types of Pain in this world: Pain that hurts you, and Pain that changes you!
”You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
”Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
“No one can change the past...But we are all entitled to start a new beginning with a new ending “
"words will never be able to convey feelings"
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
“Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.”
“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
“The biggest fault is thinking you don’t have any.”
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.”
“When I felt miserable, I ran fast and far until my body hurt so much that I no longer cared about anything else.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“Everything has it’s beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
“My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life."
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.”
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”