Taking charge of your life means being intentional. Steve Spring shares the quotes that help him stay focused.
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Trying to live your life on purpose is a little like riding on a roller coaster. Sometimes it’s fun and exciting, and other times you feel scared and powerless. During the times that you feel scared and powerless, there is not much you can do other than to keep pushing yourself forward.
Here are 77 quotes that I use to motivate myself to keep on keeping on. I hope that you will use them to help you live your life on purpose:
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.” – Napoleon Hill
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammed Ali.
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen
- “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
- “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein
- “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.” – Jeffrey Immelt
- “Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.” – Francis Gray
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
- “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin - “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi
- To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams
- “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.” – Nolan Bushnell
- “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!” – C.J. Walker
- “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” – Debbi Fields
- “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart
- “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” –Dennis Waitley
- “There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.” – C.J. Walker
- “Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.” –Albert Einstein
- “We are currently not planning on conquering the world.” – Sergey Brin
- “For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.” – Bill O’ Reilly
- “The only limits are, as always, those of vision.” – James Broughton
- “To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
- “To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.” – Tryon Edwards
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.” – Epictetus
- “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner
- “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.” – Lee Iacocca
- “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” – Laurence Sterne
- “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth
- “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber
- “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
- “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
- “The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Long-range planning works best in the short term.” – Doug Evelyn
- “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser
- “In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm.” – Suze Orman
- “The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” – Confucius
- “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.” – Alan Greenspan
- “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost
- “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
- “The noblest search is the search for excellence.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.” –Charles M. Schwab
- “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” – Les Brown
- “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” –Charles F. Kettering
- “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
- “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn
- “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford
- “Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” –Denis Waitley
- “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” –Peter Drucker
- “Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose!” – Max Schmelling
- “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Pierre Corneille
- “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
- “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” – William Shakespeare
I hope that these 77 quotes will help you life you life on purpose.
Originally published on SteveSpring.org.
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