Motivational quotes are designed to have a short
term impact. You read a quote you get inspired and you may even think about it
for the next few days or share with a friend – but that’s pretty much it.
I love motivational quotes. They inspire me and
motivate me to take action and I have found a way to use motivational quotes so
that they help me get through the tough times in my life.
To create change, achieve our goals and get through
the tough times in our life the reality is, it doesn’t happen overnight. It
takes work, commitment, focus and time.
To get through the tough times or to make changes
in our life, we have to take action and do things we have never done before.
Whatever actions we choose to do we have to keep repeating them until the goal
or outcomes are achieved.
If we want to loose weight we have to set a plan,
set goals and then consistently commit to following the plan so that we achieve
our weight loss goal.
If we want to get through the tough times in our
life we have to set a course of action using specific tools and strategies to
help us get through.
Just reading these 15 motivational quotes is not
enough. You have to take action and use these 15 quotes in an active and
consistent way.
What I mean by this, is that for these quotes to
work for you, you must take one quote each day for 15 days and say each quote
out aloud to yourself and in front of a mirror (if possible) 15 times a day….
LOL…
What this activity is doing is creating “energy in
motion” and this energy is the fuel you need to set your motivation and
inspiration into action. With action comes activity and with activity comes
energy and with energy comes hope, optimism, confidence, resilience, courage
and the desire to achieve.
I have chosen 15 Motivational Quotes, which if
you use correctly, will have a significant long term influence on
helping you get through the tough times in your life.
1. Be Bold
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the
creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
2. Be Courageous
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at
the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” - Mary
Anne Radmacher
3. Face Your Fears
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I
have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Embrace Change
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles
Darwin
5. Be Accountable
“The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting
an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or
focus on whom you are going to blame. You don’t waste time building roadblocks
to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.” - Lori
Myers
6. Believe in You
“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other
people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on
in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you.
What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to
me is my opinion of myself.” - C JoyBell.C
7. Help Others
“I have 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
8. The Right Attitude
“If the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing
things.” - Norman Vincent Peale
9. Know Your Purpose in Life
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them
looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in
your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma,
whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give
you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn
path.”
Steve Jobs
10. Trust Yourself
“Trust yourself you know more than you think you do. Trust in your
abilities, your strengths, your values and your intuition – you know much more
than you give yourself credit for.” - Unknown
11. Be Patient
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” - John Quincy Adams
12. Forgive Yourself
“Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things
that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things
helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head
up high because you didn’t allow your past mistakes to consume you. You
learned! You conquered! You became a better YOU. Be proud of who you are
TODAY!” - Stephanie Lahart
13. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
“The key to a good life is this: If you’re not going to talk about
something during the last hour of your life, then don’t make it a top priority
during your lifetime.” - Richard Carlson
14. Laugh Often
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in
others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
15. Throw Away Your Regrets
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret
is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for
wallowing in.” - Katherine Mansfield
These 15 quotes address what I believe are the 15
essential elements within you that you will need to draw upon to help you get
through the many tough times you will face in your life.
Use the 15 quotes wisely and you will face the
tough times with resilience, courage and inner strength
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