I’ve always been a BIG quote guy…as long as I can remember. And there are SO MANY AMAZING quotes floating around…here are a few of my favorites.
Decide Who You Become↑
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled.”
“The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the ship that carries you over the unknown seas to the fulfillment of your dream.”
“Your personality creates your personal reality.”
“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”
“We become what we think about.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“At any moment, be able to sacrifice what you are…for what you might become.”
“The only thing keeping you from your dreams is yourself. Nothing else.”
“Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to be your reality.”
“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“No one dictates your universe. You choose every step. So choose bravely.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“Humans are creatures of habit. Your habits become your life.”
Start Now / Action Over Talk↑
“Done is better than perfect.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“You don’t have to be great to get started. But you have to get started in order to be great.”
“Don’t let your dreams just be dreams.”
“You don’t have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going.”
“If you wait for all the lights to turn green, you will never leave your driveway.”
“Take a chance...because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be.”
Grit, Hard Work & Discipline↑
“Discipline equals freedom.”
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”
“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Then work harder to be better.”
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
“If you do today what others won’t, you’ll do tomorrow what others can’t.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way…if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
“The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it.”
Attitude & Resilience↑
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things.”
“The obstacle is the way.”
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction.”
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
“Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.”
“Obstacles are put in our way to determine if we truly want something...or just thought we did.”
Wealth, Abundance & Money Mindset↑
“Riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.”
“Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep.”
“Play long-term games with long-term people.”
“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
“Your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world.”
“Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'”
Big Dreams & Thinking Bigger↑
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.”
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
“Just because something has not been done as yet doesn't mean it cannot be done.”
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Habits & Focus↑
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
Leadership & Character↑
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“Leadership is not a rank, it is a responsibility. Leadership is not about being in charge, it is about taking care of those in your charge.”
“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
“It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
“Be impeccable with your word.”
“Judge a tree by the fruit it bears. Not the fruit it talks about.”
BJJ, Sport & the Warrior Mindset↑
“A black belt is a white belt who never quit.”
“Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.”
“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career... I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Inner Freedom & Spirit↑
“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind — you are the one who hears it.”
“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
“If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Music & Joy↑
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“Where words fail, sounds can often speak.”
“One thing I know for certain…is that music heals the soul. No matter the confusion. The hurt. The sorrow. The pain. Music is always there. There for the happy and joyous times. There to celebrate the high highs…and for the deepest depths of despair. And no one can ever take that away. Ever.”