This batch of quotes is made up sound advice on attitude, mindset and ways to approach the events in your life.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.— Patty Hansen
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.— Beverly Sills
In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.— Max Dupree
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.— Pablo Picasso
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.— Debbie Fields
The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right.— Eknath Easwaran
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.— Brian Tracy
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.— Herbert Spencer
Success is merely the process of fulfilling your own hopes and dreams- not the standards set by society, but by the standards set by you.— George Pataki
The successful man is the average man, focused.— Unknown
A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.— George S. Patton
Underpromise; overdeliver.— Tom Peters
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.— Brian Tracy
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.— Eleanor Roosevelt
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.— Jim Rohn
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.— Oprah Winfrey
One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser.— Jossie Estrella
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.— Ashley Montagu
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.— William George Jordan
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.— Theodore Roosevelt
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.— Edward Everett Hale
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.— George Horace Lorimer
Ability is what you’re capable of. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.— Lou Holtz
We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but by what we settle for.— Alan Cohen
Self-knowledge is best leaned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.— Johann Goethe
No one ever excused his way to success.— Dave Del Dotto
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.— Florence Nightingale
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.— Michael Altshuler
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.— Maria Robinson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.— Eleanor Roosevelt
The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.— Brian Tracy
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.— William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.— Zig Ziglar
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.— Warren Buffet
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.— Robert Kiyosaki
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.— Buddha
If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.— Brian Tracy
There are two kinds of failures: Those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.— Laurence Peter
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.— Zig Ziglar
Never, never, never, never give up.— Winston Churchill
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.— Henry Ford
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.— Norman Vincent Peale
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.— Napoleon Hill
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.— Thomas Edison
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.— Gandhi
I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end.— Abraham Lincoln
Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.— Christian D. Larson
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.— Margaret Mead
Patience and perseverance has a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.— John Quincy Adams
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time…”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.— Bo Bennett
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.— Phyllis Bottome
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.— Stephen Covey
We can practice leadership principles, but the only way to learn to use them is to lead. Not knowing it all is no excuse not to start.— Judy Columbus
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.— Francis of Assisi
People become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power.— Anita Roddick
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.— Walter Elliot
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.— Benjamin Franklin
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.— Wayne Dyer
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.— W. Edwards Deming
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.— Bill Cosby
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.— Napoleon Hill
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.— Rita Mae Brown
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.— Mark Twain
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.— Auguste Rodin
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.— Ann Landers
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.— William Shedd
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.— Benjamin Franklin
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.— Norman Vincent Peale
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.— Robert Brault
Life Is Not About Success Or Failure; It’s About Meaning— Tony Robbins
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.— Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do.— Maya Angelou
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.— Tony Robbins
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted— Albert Einstein
Thoughts are physical things. If you do not control them, they will control you.— Mike Dillard
Do or do not. There is no try.— Yoda
While you’re sitting around thinking ’bout what you can’t change and worrying about all the wrong things time’s flying by, moving so fast, you better make it count ’cause you can’t get it back.— Carrie Underwood
You must be willing to give without want before you can get.— Mike Dillard
Make it so today is not like yesterday, and tomorrow will be different forever.— Tony Robbins
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.— Josh Bilings