Aspire Higher Motivational Quotes

Zig Ziglar was/is one of the most famous of all self-improvement speakers.  He had a lot of good things to say.

Here are 10 quotes from him.

1) Every choice you make has an end result.

2) A goal properly set is halfway reached.

3) Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

4) If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

5) You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

6) Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.

7) If you do not see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

8 ) You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

9) Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

10) What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Do you have any favorite Zig Ziglar quotes to share here?  Please share them in the comments section below.

Also, which of these are your favorite?  Please tell us.  I like #4, 8, and 9.

-Shawn

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Endurance is a good subject that I haven’t covered yet.

Here are 10 quotes on that subject.  Remember to leave some comments at the bottom.

1) Perseverance is not a long race; it is many races one after another. -Walter Elliot

2) Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. -Edward Eggleston

3) A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough. -Ronald Reagan

4) To win without risk is to triumph without glory. -Pierre Corneille

5) Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Dr. Robert Schuller

6) Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. -Conrad Hilton

7) Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate. -John C. Maxwell

8 ) One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another has it for 30 days, but is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. -Edward B. Butler

9) You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not falling down, but staying down. -Mary Pickford

10) One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote

I like #8 and #9 a lot.  How about you?

Which ones do you like?  Do you have any to share?  Please comment below.

Shawn

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Here are 20 quotes on the topic of dreams.  Please make sure to leave a comment at the end of this to say which quotes you liked the most.

1) A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the stars before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde

2) A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask. -Fox Mulder

3) A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened. -The Talmud

4) A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok Rabinwiltz

5) All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. -Orison Swett Marden

6) Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

7) Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -Buddha

8 ) Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -Belva Davis

9) Dreams are the touchstone of our character. -Henry David Thoreau

10) Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today. -James Dean

11) Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. -Phantom F. Harlock

12) Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live. -Lady Nancy Astor

13) Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -Dale E. Turner

14) Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. -Anonymous

15) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

16) If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney

17) If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. -Jim Rohn

18) In dreams begins responsibility. -William Butler Yeats

19) It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -Robert H.

20) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

ALL DONE!  How did you like them?  Which ones of these jump out at you the most?  Please use the comments section below to let me/us know.  Thanks,

Shawn B.

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Change.  Embrace change.  Change is good.  Since it’s so good, I have 15 quotes on change to share with you.  Enjoy!

1) You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi

2) One cannot manage change, one can only be ahead of it. -Peter Drucker

3) We must either find a way or make one. -Hannibal

4) Great changes are easier than small ones. -Francis Bacon

5) Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy

6) Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela

7) People don’t resist change, they resist being changed. -Peter Scholtes

8 ) If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong. -Charles Kettering

9) If you always do what you’ve done, you will always get what you’ve always got. -Ed Foreman

10) The only completely consistent people are dead. -Aldous Huxley

11) Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not? -George Bernard Shaw (I think this one isn’t exact; I think it’s been paraphrased)

12) Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. -Robert Kennedy

13) When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

14) The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles Kettering

15) Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you in trying to change others. -Jacob M. Braude

Wow, some of these are so good that I/we/you should be writing them down and stick them up around the house!  So…which ones do you like?

Do you have any to add to this list?

Please leave your comments down below.  Thanks!  Have a great weekend!

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Here’s 10 quotes on the topic of “desire”.  Hope you like them:

1) Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. -John Heywood

2) Desire creates the power. -Raymond Holliwell

3) Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power. -Walter Lippman

4) The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. -John McDonald

5) It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -Eric Hoffer

6) For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

7) A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. -Henry Hazlitt

8 ) The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just like as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. -Napoleon Hill

9) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln

10) Desire is possibility seeking expression. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

How’d you like those???!

As usual, please comment below and tell me/us what you think of them.

-Shawn

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Here are 20 quotes about “heart”.

1) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

2) The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. -Blaise Pascal

3) All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart. -Carlos Castaneda

4) Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown

5) My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. -Lord Alfred Tennyson

6) The mind never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. -Mignon McLaughlin

7) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. -George Bernard Shaw

8 ) The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. -William Butler Yeats

9) Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. -Anthony D’ Angelo

10)  The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man. -Jacques Rousseau

11)  Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda Fitzgerald

12)  There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -John Andrew Holmes

13)  In full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Antonio Porchia

14)  Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

15)  Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. -Shigenori Kameoka

16)  Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. -Mevlana Rumi

17)  He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. -James Allen

18)  If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. -Jesse Jackson

19)  The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright

20)  A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

There you have it!

Which ones do you like the most?  Which ones jump out at you?

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Here’s another top 10 list.

Here we go:

1) If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. -James Burgh

2) Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. -Robert R. Updegraff

3) I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them—nine-tenths of them never happened. -Andrew Carnegie

4) Temper is what gets most of us into trouble.  Pride is what keeps us there. -Mark Twain

5) Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be listening. -Arnold Glasow

6) We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher

7)  Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. Like the tax collector, he is a disagreeable chap to have in one’s house, but the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away. -Artemus Ward

8. The true way of softening one’s troubles is to solace those of others. -Mad. de Maintenon

9) Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. -Longfellow

10) The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.” -William Cowper

There you have it.  Another list of quotes.  Again, please click on the little vote button below and please leave your comments.  Which quotes here really jumped out at you?

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