Self Help Quotes

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

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. - Bob Proctor

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you. - Brian Tracy

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two. And I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob Riis

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter F. Drucker

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - Victor Hugo

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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. - Henry David Thoreau

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. - Brian Tracy

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. - Albert Einstein

Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life. - Brian Tracy

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. - Henry Ford

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? - Tony Robbins

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. - Brian Tracy

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. - Denis Waitley

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Og Mandino

You can't be too kind or too generous. - Patricia Fripp

I never mastered time management. No one manages time; time cannot be managed. I merely manage activities. - Earl Nightingale

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. - Jim Rohn

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. - Timothy Ferriss

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount of time that is available. - Timothy Ferriss

A task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. - Parkinson's Law

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing. - Timothy Ferriss

Lack of time is actually a lack of priorities. - Timothy Ferriss

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy

Get from the day, not get thru the day. - Jim Rohn

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t turn up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life. - Jim Rohn

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. - Jim Rohn

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles. - Jim Rohn

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world. - Bob Proctor

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison, Inventor

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy

Success is something you attract by the person you become. - Jim Rohn

Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power is available to you. When you fully realize THOUGHT CAUSES ALL, you will know that there will never be any limits that you yourself do not impose. - U. S. Anderson

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. - Les Brown, Speaker and Author

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. - W. Clement Stone, Author and Businessman

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. - We become what we think about. - Earl Nightingale

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. - Tony Robbins

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. - Tony Robbins

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequences of consistently applying the fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. you don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated everyday. - Jim Rohn

The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do. - Jim Rohn

Consequences are seldom instant. Instead, they accumulate until the inevitable day of reckoning finally arrives and the price must be paid for our poor choices - choices that doesn’t seem to matter. - Jim Rohn

Everything you are seeking are seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don’t have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess. - Bob Proctor

We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sail. - Jim Rohn

In the end, our life will be judged not by the things that we began, but by the things that our efforts and resolves that were brought to a successful conclusion. - Jim Rohn

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Walt Emerson

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. - Brian Tracy

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. - Tony Robbins

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself. - Brian Tracy

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost, Author

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. - Michael E. Gerber, author E-Myth Mastery

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. - Brian Tracy

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. - Jack Canfield, author of Success Principles

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you. - Jack Canfield

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. - Brian Tracy

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing. - Bob Proctor

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. - Brian Tracy

Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game. - Tony Alessandra

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. - Brian Tracy

This above all; to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. - Tony Robbins

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. - Lee Iacocca

I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs, Apple

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" - E. M. Kelly

He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Author

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. - Brian Tracy

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything. - Brian Tracy

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! - Brian Tracy

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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper. - Brian Tracy, Best Selling Self-Help Author

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. - Brian Tracy

Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers. - Brian Tracy

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. - Walt Disney

Nothing is permanent but change. - Heraclitus

The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. - Thomas Carlyle, Author

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Tony Robbins

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby, Comedian

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes, Publisher

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. - Tony Robbins, Self-Help Author

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited. - Bob Proctor

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it. - Bob Proctor

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson. - Bob Proctor

Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. - Bob Proctor

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person. - Bob Proctor

If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract. - Bob Proctor

It doesn’t matter how you come to it…just that you do. Finally recognize that no one is responsible for your life but you. That you’re creating your current and future reality thought by thought. And that what you give your attention to only gets bigger and manifests itself in the world. So try to live a life focusing on what’s good and what you’re grateful for, in order to have more goodness…. What I know for sure: You keep asking the right questions of yourself, and the universe and your own secrets will unfold in ways you never imagined. -Oprah, O Magazine May 2007 in reference to her shows on The Secret

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome 1884-1963, Novelist and Lecturer

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. — Harvey MacKay, Author and Business Owner

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. — Jack Canfield: Author, One of the teacher’s featured in “The Secret”

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. — Mary Engelbreit

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. - Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich

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