52 Essential Quotes for Life; 1 for Every Week of the Year
By: Teronie
J. Donaldson
52 Essential Quotes for Life: 1 for Every Week of the Year By: Teronie J. Donaldson Introduction I don’t know if you have ever had the problem of trying to find motivation through difficult times, when it seems as if you don’t know what to do in life for a career or in life period. You are coasting along, feeling that you are not where you should be right now. Feeling that you are destined for greatness, or at least should be in a much better position than you are. Well if you haven’t, I applaud you and hope you never have that feeling. As for me, I DEFINATELY have had those moments, just as many others and I can tell you first hand that it is one of the worst feelings in the world ….guaranteed! Fortunately, nowadays I rarely feel that way. However, on the occasion(s) that I do; I reflect on tidbits of advice I received from all types of people; living and deceased, famous and not so famous people, authors, motivational speakers, entrepreneurs, friends, family and myself. Over the last few years, whenever I came across a quote that inspired me, I quickly wrote it down on a piece of paper and put it away. As time passed I have amassed a great deal of quotes, but I only would reread a few of them that gave me the most inspiration. Through my practice of doing this I rarely have those feelings of being lost (In those times of rare uncertainty I always come back to these quotes). I am more confident, determined and wise in my actions as a result. Currently, I am on my path to fulfill my destiny and I hope and wish that you will be doing the same. I will share with you those same exact quotes that I read to myself and keep on reading. These 52 Essential Quotes For Life, I provide for you has helped me many times over and I am certain they will do the same for you. Please enjoy them and may they help you as much as they helped me. Great Luck.
1) “If what you are doing right now is not moving you closer towards your goal… then it is moving you further away from it“ Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 2) “The Best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others" Fortune Cookie 3) “A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest roads. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road” Thomas Carlyle 4) “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise” Adams 5) “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” Eleanor Roosevelt 6) “The best way to shape the future is to influence it” Henry Mills 7) The very next time you find yourself procrastinating, “Just put it off”, say to yourself “I’ll procrastinate later, because right now I have things to do” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur
8) “If you are only willing to do what’s easy …. Life will be hard” T. Harv Ecker 9) “When you start doing what you really love, you’ll never work another day in your life” Bryan Tracy, Motivational Speaker 10) “Make a habit throughout life of doing the things you fear. If you do the things you fear, the death of fear is certain” Ralph Waldo Emerson 11) “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is try to please everybody” Herbert Bayard Swope 12) “If I don’t make it happen now… I make it happen never” Papoose, Hip Hop Artist 13) "One never learns by talking" Anonymous 14) “I am not stubborn, I am just not easily suppressed” Zakkiyya Bryan-Donaldson, Entrepreneur 15) “When times get tough ENDURE, that’s what separates the men from the boys, the women from the girls - the leaders from the followers” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 16) "Get through your fears and the world will open up, give into your fears and your world will get smaller every year" Anonymous 17) "The man who chases two rabbits catches neither" Confucius 18) “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Chinese Proverb 19) “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity” Andrew Carnegie 20) “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them” George Bernard Shaw 21) “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting” E.E. Cummings 22) “The greatest danger to human potential is your comfort zone” Anonymous 23) “Do not wait to strike while the iron is hot, make it hot by striking” William Sprague
24) "Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first" Frederick Wilcox, Writer 25) “There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going” Beverly Sills 26) “Don’t be afraid your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin” Grace Hansen 27) “You miss 100% of the shots you never take” Wayne Gretzky 28) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” Ralph Waldo Emerson 29) “Pay no attention to what critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic” Jean Sibelius 30) “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed” Lloyd Jones 31) “Always be the only person who can sign your checks” Oprah Winfrey 32) “Learn from your Past, plan for your Future, but focus exclusively on your Present” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 33) “The difference between successful people and failures is that successful people make a habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do” Bryan Tracy, Motivational Speaker 34) "Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more." Lou Vickery, American Business Writer 35) “Opportunity wastes no time with those that are unprepared” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 36) “In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are” Max Dupree 37) “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds” Francis Bacon 38) “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of” Benjamin Franklin 39) “If you don’t take advantage of free opportunities, you’ll have to pay for them later” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 40) “Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for on big one to come along” Hugh Allen
41) “Knowledge is not power…. Applied knowledge is” Teronie J. Donaldson, Entrepreneur 42) "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” John Sculley, Former CEO of Apple 43) “BE, DO, HAVE.” BE committed, DO what it takes, HAVE what you want. Anonymous 44) “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” Winston Churchill 45) “Failure is not the only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others” Jules Renard 46) “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed” Theodore Roosevelt 47) “The most important step in realizing your vision is to define it” Ari Kiev 48) “Don’t wait till the time is “just right” to do what you want to do, the time will never be just right, Start where you stand and use what you have at your disposal and better tools will be available as you go along" Napoleon Hill 49) “Don’t wait for someone to give you the green light to follow your dreams. Live your life as if you are already where you want to be” Anonymous 50) “Everything we want is on the other side of fear” Farah Grey 51) “To increase your effectiveness make your emotions subordinate to your commitments” Anonymous 52) “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." Wayne Dyer, Teacher