Switching Gears

If you feel yourself simply rolling along, it’s time to switch gears, because coasting can atrophy your dreams. - Jessica Hagy


Assuming your dreams are about how you will change the world.

Stumbling

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering

..... Pretty good case for getting off your butt.

Not Malice

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown


Few are truly malicious.

Value of Praise

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. - Samuel Johnson


Praise should not be frivolous. Expressing your love shouldn't be either.

Compulsively Creative

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. - Ed Norton


Yup, compulsion is less controllable than ambition.

Noble Vision

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. - Ayn Rand


When you ask a youngster what they want to be when they grow up you will never hear "unemployed" (hopefully).

Primrose Path

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark


If you stay on the couch you'll end up on the couch.

Personal Care

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar


Bath yourself in positive attitudes regularly.

Dinner Time?

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner - Samuel Johnson


Do you eat to live or live to eat?

Honorable

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle


Strive to be honorable, not honored.

Lemonade Time

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


When times are tough figure out how to make lemonade.

Delightful Progress

I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. - Paul Graham


Look for the "delight" in every project you undertake.

It Could Be Worse...

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. - Proverb


I'm assuming that by "medicine" they are referring to a dose of salts or cod liver oil. Sometimes you just need something to compare to.

Life on Fire

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Reggie Leach


Maintain your enthusiasm lest you smolder.

Spreading Light

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton


Better yet; be both.

Voyage

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. - Dee Hock 

Let moral courage launch you; morals guide you; morality keep you on the path; and principles be the foundation of your judgement.

Fired With Enthusiasm

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi


Or, how to build a winning team.


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Do It Yourself Winning

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. - Denis Waitley


If you don't do it yourself you are not a winner.


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Light Your Fire

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. - Denis Waitley 


Others get excited to see excitement.


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Dreams

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe 


You have to have a dream before you can build it.


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