"Once you understand that you can choose what meaning and importance to place on something, you can also understand that it is you, not external circumstances, who determines the quality of your life."

"For me it remains a strong reminder of how once we understand we give everything in our life its meaning, we can begin to control what happens to us and even convert our own adversity into a gift to ourselves and our loved ones."

"It’s incredibly empowering to realize that you have the power to change your attitude toward anything."

"If there’s something you really want to do, often it’s as simple as just doing it."

"When something is a priority in your life, you have to be willing to walk away from anything that’s standing in its way."

"When thinking about how to achieve your dream, don’t simply charge ahead. Pause and think about what the problem really is.  Go to a higher level and consider what else might be at the heart of the problem. Now reframe it. Change your point of view. Then change it again and see where you are. The real problem will reveal itself to you."

"To allow your subconscious to do its work, you must relax. There are many stories of people having breakthroughs during their dreams and daydreams."

"It’s said that it’s not what you know but who you know. I agree with that, though in its less cynical form: we are all better off when we assist each other to figure things out."

"The fact is, we can choose to learn from others. We can emulate their positive attributes and guard against their negative ones."

"People who perform affirmations contend that a positive mental attitude supported by affirmations will make almost anything possible."

"Nobody can survive on his own; the fact that you know how to speak, how to read, how to add, it’s all because you’ve taken someone else’s idea and used it for your own needs. Society depends on building on other people’s ideas."

"You can sit around in the dark waiting for the light to come on, or you can get up, walk across the room, and flip the switch yourself."

"If you are doing something, then no matter how many times you hit a barrier, or how frustrated your original strategy
becomes, you intend to get the job done, and you bring to bear on it the inner resolve and attention necessary to fulfill
your intention."

"Almost without exception, people who have done great things have also experienced great failures—and in many cases, getting fired or a similar devastating failure turned out to be a gift that allowed them to ultimately find great success."

"If you do something and it works, great! If you do something and it fails, maybe even better. You do, you fail, and you learn. You do again, you fail again, and you learn some more. If you are mindful about what you have done, failure is a teacher."

"The most liberating way to acknowledge failure is to celebrate it."

Quotes of wisdom by Bernard Roth
The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

Motivating Quotes

More Motivational Quotes:

• Yvonne Teoh Bource

I observed that the greatest hurdle to overcome was to not only acknowledge that we have the power within us to create our life any way we choose, but to accept the full responsibility that goes with that acknowledgment.
 
• Rosamund Stone Zander

Examine, one by one, the words you are using to define a problem that confronts you. Redefine any words that are causing fear in you, or resistance, or that imply a struggle, until the struggle and fear subside.
 
• Martin E. P. Seligman

The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.