Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.
The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.
You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.
In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.
There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.
Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.
Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.
If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.
The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.
If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.
If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.
If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.
If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.
A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.
I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even the word itself carried with it a negative connotation. Work—bluck! When I left the corporate world, I swore off the word altogether. Noun, verb, adjective—I avoided all of work’s iterations. I no longer ‘went to work,’ so that was easy to remove from my vocabulary. In fact, I no longer ‘worked’ at all; instead I replaced the word with a more specific verb: I would ‘write’ or ‘teach’ or ‘speak’ or ‘volunteer,’ but I refused to ‘work.’ I no longer went to the gym to ‘workout’; instead I ‘exercised.’ And I stopped wearing ‘work clothes’; I chose instead to wear ‘dress clothes.’ And I avoided getting ‘worked up,’ preferring to call it ‘stress’ or ‘anxiety.’ And I didn’t bring my car to the shop to get ‘worked on,’ deciding instead to have my vehicle ‘repaired.’ Hell, I even avoided ‘handiwork’ 92 and ‘housework,’ selecting their more banal alternatives. Suffice it to say, I wanted nothing to do with the word. I wanted it not only stricken from my lexicon, but from my memory, erasing every shred of the thing that kept me from pursuing my dream for over a decade. But after a year of that nonsense, I realized something: it wasn’t the word that was bad; it was the meaning I gave to the word. It took removing the word from my everyday speech for a year to discover that it wasn’t a bad word at all. During that year, I had been pursuing my dream, and guess what—when I looked over my shoulder at everything I’d accomplished, I realized that pursuing my dream was, in fact, a lot of work. It took a lot of work to grow a website. It took a lot of work to publish five books. It took a lot of work to embark on a coast-to-coast tour. It took a lot of work to teach my first writing class. It took a lot of work to pursue my dream. Work wasn’t the problem. What I did as my work was the problem. I wasn’t passionate about my work before—my work wasn’t my mission—and so I wanted to escape from work so I could live a more rewarding life, looking to balance out the tedium of the daily grind. But work and life don’t work that way. Even when you’re pursuing your dream, there will be times of boredom and stress and long stretches of drudgery. That’s alright. It’s all worth it in the end. When your work becomes your life’s mission, you no longer need a work-life balance.
Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.
A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.
A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.
When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.
Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.
Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.
Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.
A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.
If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.
If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.
Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass.
Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.
Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.
Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.
It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.
God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.
The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have.
An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.
You can always create the life you want.Workhard to fulfill your dreams.
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.
It takes more than one individual to make a team.
The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.
Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.
Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.
Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.