There’s never a good time to start a project, or quit your job and start your business, or finish painting that room you started last year, or invest in that opportunity you don’t want to miss. The timing never works out. The best possible opportunities always tend to present themselves at the worst possible times. Seth Godin wrote a great article about it a while back.
The best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.
You can read the original article at Seth’s blog.
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Joe that was such a great quote. Here are some of my favourites I think other will enjoy and find helpful.
The 5 steps in choosing to win and be a champion.
Step 1. Balance-The fist step to success, because without balance in you life, it’s impossible to find a stable platform on which to build you dreams and keep you ego down.
Step 2. Hard work and Perseverance- No dream can be turned into reality without a hard work ethic and perseverance, which comes from finding enjoyment and hunger in watching each layer form.
Step 3. Learn and Improve- Learn from experiences and people around you. The best goal you can have is improvement which, no matter how big or small, always raises you to the next level.
Step 4. Self-focus- The fastest way to victory is a rock solid self focus to keep out distractions which will destabilise you from your tower of goals.
Step 5. Self believing- Finally, you cannot overcome your toughest obstacles and choose to win until you believe you can.
“A total commitment is paramount in reaching the ultimate in performance.”
“Today’s preparation determines tomorrow’s achievement.”
“Never, Never, Never Quit.” Winston Churchhill
“If you’ve made up your mind you can do something you’re absolutely right.”
“A champion is not a special person but a person who does special things.”
“One of the greatest pleasures in life is achieving things people say can’t be done.” Scott
Volkers
“Corrections are the most important part of class.”
“Dance is an art and to achieve you must have a love of hard work.”
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
“Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.”
“If you dream it you can achieve it, If you can imagine it you can become it.”
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
“The difference between the possible and impossible lies in a mans determination.” Tommy Lasorda
“Dance as if nobody is watching.”
“A winner is someone who sets his goals, commits himself to those goals, and then pursues his goals with all the ability given to him.”
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realise how close to success they were when they gave up.”
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand and the determination that wether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardo
“Quality is never an accident: it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” Willa A Foster
“To be a winner, one must be totally committed. Total commitment means doing whatever is necessary to become successful.”
“There is a point of no return where you have laboured so long sacrificed so much, that you can’t go back. You must reach you goal and move past anyone who tries to stop you.” H. Elliot
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.” Colin Powell
“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.” B. Bradley.
“Enjoy the journey enjoy every moment and quit worrying about winning and losing.” Matt Biondi
“Make it happen- You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.” May V Smith
“If you first don’t succeed; you are running about average.” M.H.Anderson
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in day out.” Robert Collier
“There is plenty of room at the top- but no place to sit down.”
“As long as I can focus on enjoying what I’m doing, having fun, I know I’ll play well.” Steff Graf
“A young person yo achieve must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.” Edward William Bok
“The road to success is uphill.” Willie Davis
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but wether it’s the same problem you had last year.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” Joe Girard
“Success is the old A,B,C ability, breaks and courage.” Charles Luckman
“The reward of suffering is experience.” Aeschylus
“The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.”
“Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.” Don Shula
“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.” Bunker Hut
“A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood.” Phillip.C.Grant
“Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” Lou Brock
“You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.” Joe Falcon
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” Thomas A Edison
“To be a champion one must first learn to lose.”
Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to reach uncommon goals.
Quality- the race for quality has no finish line!
Opportunity- Victory is what happens when ten thousand hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.
Perseverance- the difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Determination- The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.
Success- most people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard for it.
Rhythmic Quotes
“You’ve got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream… kept me going!”
“When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, ‘I may be nervous, but you are definitely nervous as well.’” Zhang Jinjing
“Winning is not about how many medals you get-it’s about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!” Michelle Kwan
“It’s always a struggle. It’s an uphill battle for the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so great, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.” Jennifer Lopez
“It’s not how old you are, it’s how you feel.” Mila Marinova (USA)
“The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.” Elise Ray
“You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you’re going to practice eight hours straight.” Zoe Saldana
“You can focus on what you can control and make the most of it!” Erika-Leigh Stirton (CAN)
“You should know to work hard but also enjoy the work.” Elena Vitrichenko (UKR)
“Talent goes to waste if it’s not used properly. No matter how fast one develops, one has to train to keep it up.” Bai Yuanshao (CH)
“With the right attitude, limitations vanish, for a person’s state of mind is always self-given.”
“‘No’ can be one of the most positive words in the world. No I will not be defeated. No, I will not give up.”
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
“If you worry about winning, you won’t. If you focus on doing your very best, you will.”
“Losers quit when they are tired… Champions quit when they hold gold!”
“If you can dream you can do anything.”
“It is extremely important to stay focused on your objective, for it is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue.”
“The driving force required to propel you towards your goal lies exclusively within you.”
“When you believe, anything is possible…pursue your aspirations with determined optimism.”
“Exploiting an opponent’s weakness begins with exploring your own.”
“Success is and attitudes… allow your mind to believe and you will succeed.”
“When a goal becomes deeply rooted in your soul it provides the nourishment to go the distance.”
Do not put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
I really liked some of the quotes written here. What qualifies a person to write his or her favorite quote? Why does reading other quotes compels us to write our own? Anyhow, here is one of my favorite quotes by Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919. PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO MOTIVATE THEMSELVES MUST BE CONTENT WITH MEDIOCRITY, NO MATTER HOW IMPRESSIVE THEIR OTHER TALENTS.
” Talk doesn’t cook rice.”
Faith without action is a ‘ dead fish’ going down streeam.
It’s too bad so many of these great quotes are unattributed. The author of each should be recognized.