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What a week it has been for me.
The reason I refer to it here is that in the article I shared a couple of my favourite quotes that I have been using to keep me driven and motivated during my running schedule and when I start my days.
Here are some:
“I would trade whole years filled
with mindless conformity for one hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks.” – Sir Walter Scott
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the
bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John
Wooden
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
This weekend’s mantra? “I am Titanium!”
As I said, those quotes are the ones I used throughout my training as running mantras, and the song has been played often on my Walkman when out running.
It is a favourite of mine and I love the message that I bent to fit my own circumstances regarding running.
Like many people, over the years, I have gathered up an ongoing list of my favourite motivational quotes that I use in a variety of different ways. I have even gone as far as to categorise mine and keep them
in different notebooks on Evernote that I can access from all my electronic devices and I dip into them at least once a day.
I have a few printed onto flashcards and stuck to my computer screen or placed into wallet too.
Today, I thought I’d share some of my favourite motivational quotes with you.
10 (and even a good few more) Of My Favourite Quotes and Why!
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1. “When a butterfly has emerged, it can never turn back into a caterpillar.” - Colin Wilson
Later on, I’ll quote Richard Bach directly, but I really enjoyed his wonderful book about Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
A seagull who looked to advance his experience of life, master flight and seek
more from life than simply trailing boats in a pack fighting over fish entrails and scraps as an existence.
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull ascended and was reborn to higher levels of being in the book.
This is not about spirituality to me, or about having better lives after this one. I like the
idea of transformation and ascending to higher levels. I like the idea that we can evolve and elevate ourselves and our life and this quote reminds me of that.
While I am quoting Colin Wilson, here is another of his that has a similar theme that is one of the first thoughts I think when I wake up in the morning.
“When I open my eyes in the morning I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.” Colin Wilson
Transformation is not just about big changes happening, but about perception and how we approach life, and these Colin Wilson quotes really remind me of thinking in those
terms. 2. “We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.” -
William James
I love this.
Happiness is not a bi-product of something else we are doing.
At least, that is my interpretation of the American philosopher’s quote. Happiness is less passive and more of a process for us to engage in and be an active agent of.
3. “I have more fun, and enjoy more financial success, when I stop trying to get what I want and start helping other people get what they want.”
- Spencer Johnson
This sentiment is central to my entire working ethos in my professional field and is very similar to this one; “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert
Einstein
When we look for who and how we can serve, other benefits follow suit without necessarily needing to actively pursue them.
We are rewarded greatly on many levels when we serve others and add value to the world, and I think it is some of the best business advice anyone can receive - to
work out how to add value, to be valuable and to serve others
4. “Every problem carries a gift inside it.” - Richard Bach
This quote encapsulates that for me.
There are a couple of other quotes that I love that offer a similar theme and
message.
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”- Bill
Gates
We learn from problems, we learn from set-backs, we learn from mistakes.
We benefit from them and develop out of them. 5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison quotes offer us much about persistence and not giving up, but this one is particularly valuable to me.
We are often closer than we think to getting it right, to having a success, and whether it is running, or developing my business or learning how to be a better.
It is good to think that we are not always miles and miles away from what we seek if we continue to be strong and have the courage of our convictions.
6. “Today, success is my only option! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! I have decided I won’t be denied, I won’t be defeated!” - Eric Thomas
My favourite quotes list would not be complete if I did not include some input from Eric Thomas. I find him to be utterly inspirational. He is straight talking, no nonsense and drives me.
“Be phenomenal or be forgotten.” Eric
Thomas
“If you’re not leading your ideal life, it’s probably because your expectations are greater than your effort!” Eric Thomas.
This is sheer motivation for me and requires very little further explanation.
7. “There is a one thing that 99 percent of “failures” and “successful” folks have in common — they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.”
I have lots and LOTS of quotes that focus on one
particular thing: Taking action.
These are some of my other favourites about the taking action:
“Successful people do what they need to do whether they feel like it or not.” Eric Thomas.
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”– Walt Disney
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of uncompleted tasks.” William James
Getting things done is a wonderful sensation. It nourishes on numerous levels. It uplifts, it removes fear, it invigorates and it paves pathways to success.
I write about it often, I talk about it often, I talk to my clients about it often - taking action is a beautiful thing and
when we start taking action, things change, life changes!
I think this is the reason that one of my favourite ever film quotes has been something I say to myself in my head at the start of most training runs I go out on in the early hours, and before every training course I run, and before lectures I give,
and before I work with individual clients…..
“Get busy living or get busy dying” - Red, the Shawshank Redemption.
8.
“No one is coming.” - Nathaniel Branden.
When I first read this, I was shaken.
It gave me a major kick up the backside. It really did.
In my life, no-one else is responsible for who and how I am. The same is true for you. No-one is coming to save us, no-one is coming to make things
better for us, no-one else can do it.
This is about taking responsibility, siezing the day and has so many levels to it that I’ll allow you to interpret for yourself just as I have.
9. “Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Picasso of street sweepers.” - Martin Luther King
Absolutely.
Whatever you do, then aim to be as good as you possibly can be at it.
10. “We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even1 the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.” - Dalai Lama
Although I have listed this as a top ten, you have already seen that it is more than that.
I wanted my number ten to represent one single person whose quotes fill me with purpose, joy, love and wonder; the Dalai Lama.
I just fall in love with life and the world every time I read quotes by him. I have hundreds of quotes by the Dalai Lama and they all have a sense of
connectedness with each other, but are hard to choose between at the same time.
Here are some that stand out for me.
“Human happiness and human satisfaction most ultimately come from within oneself.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”
“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
“The more
you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.”
“We need to learn how to want what we have, not to have what we want in order to get steady and stable
happiness.”
There you have it, a collection of my favourite motivational quotes.
What are your favourite
motivational quotes and why?
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I have got some high brow gags for you this week:
There are two types of people in this world:… Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
The other day my friend was telling me that I didn’t understand what irony meant. … Which is ironic, because we were standing at a bus stop.
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day.
“In English,” he said, “a double
negative forms a positive.
However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. …
But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”
A voice
from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? … …
Hahahaha, enjoyed those. Thanks to you all for sending them in each week, I love getting them.
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