My Favorite Quotes
“Fear God & keep his commandments”
“Life offers many choices. Eternity offers only two”
“Each second is a gift from God, make the most of every second (time)”
“If I’m wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you’re wrong about God then you wasted your eternity”
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and
to die to find out that there is.”
“Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell”
“I’d rather have 1% of 100 men’s efforts than 100% of my own”
“Own nothing, control everything”
“Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse”
“Focused action – committed and repeated = habit = lifestyle”
“Don’t bother me. I’m too busy doing what you keep talking about”
“All problems are illusions of the mind”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one
definite move daily toward your goal”
“Automation is to time what compound interest is to money”
“What are the things that i could do today that would free up more time tomorrow?”
“Don’t try harder, do harder”
“Random actions = random results”
“Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most”
“Yesterday you said tomorrow”
“Secret to earthly happiness = progress”
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
“Many people think excitement is happiness… But when you are excited you are not peaceful.
True happiness is based on peace”
“Data beats emotions”
“People will forget what you said, what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
“It’s not what we do once in awhile that shapes our lives, it’s what we do consistently “
” Rich people buy time, poor people sell time”
“What gets measured gets done”
“You survive by making others need you. Success seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose”
“No money, no risk, little time”
“It’s not the hours you put in it’s what you put into the hours”
“Every battle’s won before its ever fought”
“Begin with the end in mind”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines
how well you do it”
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live
life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now.
There are only so many tomorrows”
“All there is is now”
“Just do it”
“Win from within”
“Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrows troubles, it takes away today’s peace”
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication”
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and focus on what could go right”
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own”
“If you’re depressed you’re living in the past. If you’re anxious you’re living in the future.
If you’re at peace you’re living in the present”
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a destiny “
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time,
all you got is life time, go”
“Let your dreams change your reality, don’t let your reality change your dreams”
“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be”
“Begin while others wait, decide while others delay, work while others wish, save while others waste,
study while others sleep, persist while others quit”
“Don’t believe everything you think”
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask,
the answer will always be no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place”
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen”
“Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are”
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest.
And the first to forget is the happiest”
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship.
Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you”
“Work like there’s someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you”
“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want,
you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want”
“Work until your bank account looks like a phone number”
“Do not waste the remainder of your life on thoughts about others,
when you do not refer your thoughts to some object of common utility.
For you lose the opportunity of doing something else when you have such thoughts as these.
What is such a person doing, and why, and what is she saying, and what is she thinking of,
and what is she contriving, and whatever else of the kind makes us wander away from the
observation of our own ruling power”
“Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan!”
“Every time you get upset, ask yourself if you died tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?”
“Don’t count time, make time count”
“You get what you tolerate”
“Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally”
“What you allow is what will continue”
“The best way to get results is to get rid of excuses”
“Starve your distractions, feed your focus”
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
“Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal, it’s the courage to continue that counts”
“Don’t talk, act. Don’t say, show. Don’t promise, prove”
“Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present,
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future.
He lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived”
“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying..MJ”
“Practice doesn’t make perfect because nobody’s perfect. Practice makes progress”
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and
walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive”
“You’ll be happy when you stop expecting people to treat you a certain way,
you can only expect the lord to keep his promises 100%, never let you down”
“You must determine the price that you will have to pay to achieve success,
and then get busy paying that price”
“Health, wealth, and the time to enjoy it”
“Spend your time proving you’re great at what you do instead of spending time convincing people
you’re great at what you do”
“Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel”
“If you live for peoples acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection”
“You should love what you do so much that it’s the only way to make money”
“Kindness is the oil that takes friction out of life”
“Motivation is motive in action”
“Define your expectations”
“Attack what you’re afraid of!”
“Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box”
“To be list > to do list”
“Perfection is the enemy of progress”
“What you practice in private you show in public”
“What you eat in private you wear in public”
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence”
“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost part of your life”
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people”
“The stronger the why, the easier the how becomes”
“People don’t decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
“Good habits make time your ally, bad habits make time your enemy.”
“Learn then remove the letter l”
“If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience”
“Work smarter, not harder, by leveraging an existing business.”
“Financial confidence gives you the power to earn money anywhere, anytime, in any economy.”
“Sell the problem you solve, not the product”
“Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder”
“Motion feels like progress. Action is progress.”
“Writing is the antidote to confusion.”
“Being underestimated is a gift. You don’t have to find motivation.”
“Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you”
“The man who enjoys walking will walk further than the man that enjoys the destination”
“Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.”
“A mistake repeated more than once is a choice.”
“Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change.”
“Dreams Form Fantasies. Decisions Form Futures.”
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
“The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning.”
“Long term consistency will always trump short term intensity.”
“Addiction is giving up EVERYTHING for one thing, Recovery is giving up one thing for EVERYTHING.”
“Before you worry about how to win the game, figure out whether the game is worth winning.”
