Are you a shipwreck or a clipper? Shipwrecks allow the environment to swell, swamp and consume them. Clippers ride out the storm, until blue waters, brilliant sunshine and favourable winds return.
Are you a shipwreck or a clipper? Shipwrecks allow the environment to swell, swamp and consume them. Clippers ride out the storm, until blue waters, brilliant sunshine and favourable winds return.
Ali, Gandhi, Elvis, Dr King, Lincoln, Churchill, all had virulent haters, but nobody heeds their detractors’ words today. Be true to yourself and live your dream.
Don’t care what other people think. The people you care about, care about what they think.
Stubbornness in quantity, has a quality all of its own.
Plenty of people will tell you what you cannot do. What truly counts. It is what you tell yourself you can do.
How you respond to disappointments, setbacks, and failures, is always an opportunity to build resilience and says far more about your character than your response to success.
To learn from your own mistakes once only is excellent and highly valuable, but to learn from others’ mistakes is the most beneficial of all.
THINK before you DO. DO before you THINK – this is when the police show up.
I’m not the strongest, I’m not the fastest, I’m not the smartest, but I have a tendency not to give up easily – don’t you.
Pushing people down is easy, amoral and destructive. Lifting people up is challenging, righteous and rewarding for everyone.
To keep going, never give up and never lose hope. Always have a plan. If you have a plan, you have hope.
Good habits are like the miracle of compound interest, a single day does not matter, but over the long term the results are phenomenal.
“If I could pass only one trait to my children, it would be an irrepressible will ‘not to give up’.”
Be a person of action. Thoughts and words alone did not put man on the moon.
When things really go pear-shaped, learn to appreciate the simple things in life, like chocolate frogs.
When times become tough or complex, simplify your life in the short term by employing the W.I.N. principle to ride out your difficulties and triumphant over adversity. Hint: Google W.I.N. Nothing of intangible value comes without work.
Like a boxer, sometimes in life you need to cover up, take a pounding… but just when others think you are done, explode with positive rage, leave them wondering ‘What the hell!’
Speak and write as if your life depends on your words. Inspire ‘soldiers’ to follow you and your plan, to go over the top and storm the enemy trenches! Be clear, precise, passionate and succinct. Don’t use unnecessary words or jargon to make yourself sound smart, you’ll fool no one. Rather, be crystal clear when communicating. This is the genius of all great communicators.
Be brave, if something looks like the Charge of the Light Brigade, speak up.
Hope is important. I sometimes run in the rain and think the sun is still shining above those grey clouds.
Just because someone has accumulated power, it doesn’t mean they’re wise. Watch and learn from their mistakes.
Your experiences forge you, but it’s your attitude and the decisions through the furnace of life that make you.
It’s not the things you accumulate that you’ll cherish as the sun sets on your life, but the experiences, connections and lives you’ve touched.
Did you spend your day well? Remember, you’re one day closer to your death.
Life is there to be enjoyed, it’s up to you if you wish to take advantage of it.
Life is a series of ups and downs. Have faith in a positive future during the lows, and, with healthy routines, catapult yourself to the stars when on the highs.
Sit and stare at the second hand of a clock. You are watching your life slip by. Feel the lost moment. Now, do something different.
Curled up in a ball, feeling sorry for myself, didn’t motivate me to climb out of the pit. Getting off my backside, making an effort and asking for help did.
Resilience is not strength. Resilience is returning to strength.
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
He who laughs last laughs loudest.
Time is ever so precious. Use it wisely, growing yourself, renewing yourself or providing valuable service to others.
The building blocks of motivation: knowing what you want, and as equally as passionately, knowing what you don’t want.
Self validation is key to self-esteem and to keep going in hard times. Set specific goals, work like a tiger, expect set backs, continue, and achieve. You won’t need validation from others, ironically it follows.
Usain Bolt does not get out of bed to be number two – neither should you.
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