"My point is that you can have all the dreams you want, but you need to put something towards those dreams to make them work."

"I was able to move onwards not by aiming for the top job, but by doing one thing at a time."

"Life is about taking steps that move you forwards."

"You don’t have to worry about going forwards quickly. What matters is that you are moving and that you keep moving until you hit your limits."

"You can’t be anything you want. But you can be something."

"Work with what you have instead of wishing for what you can’t have or what someone else has got."

"We can all do something but we have to find it. You will know when you find it because it will feel right for you."

"Everything we do, every step we take, is because we believe it is worth doing."

"We don’t always know if we will end up where we want to be, but we have to give it a try. Even before we do that, we have to fight for our light and keep fighting for it. Because there will always be people who say, ‘I don’t think that will work.’"

"We have to be careful not to fall under the spell of what we read and hear. To keep your sanity in this crazy world you need to stay focused on your own life."

"Think of the great things that people like you have done. Yes, normal people like you. I am always impressed by people who go that extra mile for their fellow human beings.  They help to blow holes in our cynical world that seems to put a downer on
everything."

"Optimism does not mean you won’t worry."

"But there are different kinds of worry. There is the kind of worry that leaves your brain numb, where you sit on the couch and do nothing and just sink into despair. And then there is good worry, when just thinking about doing something new gets you all tense and excited."

"Just because you want to do something doesn’t mean the rest of the world shares your delight."

"Optimism is something you have to fight for every day."

"Turning your mind around when it is telling you it can’t see the road ahead is tough. Just remember, it’s not a problem. It’s part of your journey to success."

Contributed by John Bird
The 10 Keys to Success

Motivating Quotes

More Motivational Quotes:

• Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

It was not enough for Disney to dream simply of owning his own studio; he also dreamed of—and achieved—major advances in the art and impact of animation by doing things no one else was doing.
 
• Dr. Henry Cloud

There is an order to the ways that things work. Life was created with laws that govern how it works. There are laws that
govern success just as gravity governs falling. If we can learn to follow these laws, we can live better lives.
 
• David Niven

The setbacks you experience are wonderful opportunities to learn. Not only can you learn, in a critical sense, what you might have done wrong, but you also can come to understand what has led you to make the choices you’ve made.
 
• Cliff Michaels

Life is sometimes unfair. The world doesn’t owe us favors. Intelligence, privilege, and opportunity are not proxies for success. Persistence rules the day.
 
• Chris Widener

If you want to reap a relationship, a friendship, be the encourager, be the one who’s always telling your friends, “Man. I’m excited about what you’re doing. I think you’re great at this.