Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Way More Than a Few of my Favorite Napoleon Hill Quotes

"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."

"People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often."

"You can be anything you want to be, if only you beleive with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."

"Faith is the 'eternal elixir' which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all of acumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all 'miracles' and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure."

"Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession."

 

"When defet comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative."

"Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat."

"A Positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done."

"Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly."

 

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."

"It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind."

"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the reult of selfishness."

""The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind."

"If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction."


"Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire."

"If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome."

"I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess."

"If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity."

"It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you."

"The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others."

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.""Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of attraction."

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."


"Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and consistently direct them towards your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals."

"You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement."

"If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day's work you have done today?"

"If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own."

"The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm."

"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, you will obtain results a great deal faster."

"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."

"Attend well to your character, and you reputation will look out for itself."


"There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering a useful service."

"Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let them."

"Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown."

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time."

"You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form."

"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end."

"The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."


"The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work."

"There is a difference between failure and temorary defeat."

"Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity,"

"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire."

"Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it."

"If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it."

"Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it."

"Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative  influence of other people."

"A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them."

"Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort,"

"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats."

"Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances."

"If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs."

"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."

"When you close the door of your mind to negitive thoughts, the door opportunity opens to you."

"The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planing and action stage."


"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own enviroment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how mush he recieves for his service, or the number of people he may be servicing or the class of people served."

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to posses superhuman powers to achieve."

"One must marry one's feeling to ones beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."

"A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.""It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project"


"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires and begin at once, whether your ready or not, to put this plan into action."

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

"Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you."

"The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face."

"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."

"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."

"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. you must make a move to be victorious."

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you."


"Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith."

"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

"Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be."

"Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis."

"Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity."

"The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it."

"Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!"

"Failure is a keen trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes a great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach."


"To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to 'know' is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do."

"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind."

"Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order."

"Both success and failure are largly the result of habit."

"One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word impossible."

"We see see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life."

"Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.""Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

"Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind."

"Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure."

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

"Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life; not what you don't want."


"No one's ready for a thing, until they beleive that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish."

"The man who dose more that he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.""First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you."

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

"Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence."

"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."


Wednesday, April 26, 2017

We All Take Baby Steps Everyday


We are all going somewhere. The problem seems to be where we are going. Most of the time a day goes by and we have taken a baby step in one direction…then the next day, we take a baby step in another direction. 


That's going nowhere fast. That's exactly how you got where you are today…one baby step at a time. 


There's an old saying, "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail".


You certainly need to know where you want to go before you can get there. The only place you will arrive is "nowhere-city" without a plan…a well-thought-out, written-down-in-black-and-white plan….a roadmap to success.



First Baby Step


Decide exactly what your long term goal is…no maybes, or ifs. Write it down in one short sentence. "I want a successful online business", "I want to be able to send my kids to college" are some examples.


Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking through the door you have decided to head for.

Second Baby Step


Map out the way that you can achieve that long term goal. Write down the baby steps it will take to get there. What you can do each day to make it all happen. 


Your list might start with, "Make an appointment with a financial planner" or "Get information about starting an online business". Make a plan to stick with for the long haul.

Baby Step Three


Start to put it into action, one baby step after another. A plan without the action to back it up is just a useless piece of paper. 


 Positive input on a daily basis will make the difference!


Sunday, April 23, 2017

Way More than a few of My Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."


"You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves love and affection."

"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragment and different points of vision."

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."

  "It is easy to stand in a crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing yourself."

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."


"Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words."

"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."


"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."

"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim a purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."


"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from god as my successes and my talents and lay them both at his feet."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow in."

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."


"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"There is no 'way to peace.' there is only 'peace."

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."


"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponet conquer him with love."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. The next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."


"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become you habits, your habits become you values, your values become your destiny."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even it I may not have it in the beginning."

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. Buy that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know the what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results."

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them."
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."

"It is not that I do not see angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as agelessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by consistent practice."




Friday, April 14, 2017

Way More Than a Few of My Favorite Zig Ziglar Quotes

Zig Ziglar was a great salesman, motivational speaker, and author. I discovered him as a member of Morning Coach. I got all of these quotes from my favorites list in my Zig Ziglar Daily Dailypedia App. Zig's book 'See You at the Top' is course material for the 12-week Motivation 101 course, with Morning Coach Membership, which I will be reading once I'm through with Wealth 101.

Zig himself passed away in 2012, his son Tom Ziglar and the Ziglar family help keep Zig's wise and inspirational messages and training alive today. The Ziglar family hosts Life-Changing Programs, and their website has even more great Ziglar Quotes.

I'm also considering reading Zig and Tom's book 'Born To Win; Find Your Success Code' in the future, just took a look inside on amazon. The first image below is the cover of another one of his books 'Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar', which would be a nice book to have around.






"When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities." 

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." 

"The price of success is much lower than the price of failure." 

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." 

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

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well." 

"A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day." 

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." 

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

"We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning."

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."

"Most people who fail their dreams fail not from the lack of ability but from the lack of commitment." 

"It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important. What is important is that you preserve and never give up on yourself." 

"Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment." 

"Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life."

 "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you." "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

"You don't build a business, you build people, and then people build the business." 

"Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person that trust and loyalty." 

"You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." 

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time." "Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice." 

"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of your."

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through." "We are physical, mental and spiritual beings. If you don't deal with all of life you're not going to get all that life has to offer." "It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform  as a winner."

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there."

"Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?" 

"Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new." "Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short-lived." 

"Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours." 

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations." "The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief." 

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: you are capable." "A Goal properly set is halfway reached." "You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm." 

"You never know when a helping hand will change another person's life." 

"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend." 

"In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again."

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

"You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist."  

"Making a big life chang is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret." 

"True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her." "The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for." 

"Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past." 

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." 

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles." 

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have." 

"Make today worth remembering." 

"If you go out looking for friends, your going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." 

"F-E-A-R has two meanings:'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise'. The choice is yours." 

"What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.""When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do." 

"Success is not measured by what you do compared to what someone else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing." 

"Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive." 

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

"Where you start is not as important as where you finish."

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise." 

"Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint." 

"Success occurred when opportunity meets preparation." 

"While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job is infinitely more important."

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there." 

"Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success." "Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else." 

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." 

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little." 

"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"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. If we do our best, we are a success." 

"You can only have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want." 

"Failure is an event, not a person."

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it." 

"Attitude, not aptitude, determines Altitude." 

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart." 

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now." 

"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker." "You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." 

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TV's." 

"If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry, do something about it. Worry less, and act more." 

"You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future." 

"What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life." "You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else." "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." 

"Don't let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future." 

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Lack of direction, not the lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."