“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
Motivation is a huge key to success in business, but staying motivated isn’t always easy. I like to use a variety of pictures, quotes and videos to keep me motivated. Quotes have always been a favorite of mine so I post the good ones around my room to keep them in my head. Here are some of my favorites.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds – Zig Ziglar
If you sit down and always consider all the possibilities, if you waste your time worrying what others will think, if you ponder whether or not you are good enough, then you never will be – Tucker Max
What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?
Mediocrity is a handrail that’s leaned on all too often.
All those people that give you shit and tease you about your book, or art, or music, or whatever…fuck them. FUCK. THEM. They aren’t trying to do what you’re doing. They aren’t doing anything creative, or innovative or challenging. Fuck them and watch how they change when your art succeeds – Chuck Palahniuk
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. – Zig Ziglar
The Moment…When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back.That’s the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck.All the hard work and preparation and daring and luck is nothing compared with the ability to not blink. – Seth Godin
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. – Chuck Palahniuk
Those are a few of my favorites. We’re always looking for more inspiration, so post your favorite quotes for everyone to read. Let’s get motivated!
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One of the best motivating quotes that I look to often is from Lance Armstrong:
Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But that doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you always feels good for you. EVERY DAY IS THE DAY.
Although it says running, you can substitute anything you want in and the message is still the same: if you’re not doing something every day to get towards your goal, you’re only hurting your chances.
This is on one of my successory pictures in my office. It just keeps me reminded that competition is always chasing me. Nice post Justin
“Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better be running”.
Abe Gubegna
Ethiopia, circa 1974
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