"If you are bored of sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself, then start getting involved in the things around you. When somebody invites you along to something say, ‘Yes!’ even if at first you think that’s not really your kind of thing. Saying, ‘Yes!’ has led me to meeting so many interesting people and making new friends, too, and most important of all it got me out of the self pity bubble and back on the track toward happiness."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Goals are what give you direction in life, and by setting goals you provide a target. This sense of direction is what allows your mind to focus and, rather than waste energy shooting aimlessly, allows you to hit your target and reach your goal."
-- Ros Taylor
"The same is true for anything you want to do or any way you would like to think. Certainly it takes effort to change the way you think, but it is not impossible and it's never too late!"
-- Gill Hasson
"Open your mind. There is a possibility that things can be different. Visualize a different life for yourself—a life that allows you to put your priorities first, to grow, to share your gift and lead a prosperous and abundant life."
-- Megan Tull
"It would make an ignorant man a well-informed one in less than ten years. Time should not be allowed to pass without yielding fruits, in the form of something learnt worthy of being known, some good principle cultivated, or some good habit strengthened."
-- Samuel Smiles
"‘Living in the now’ is exactly what it says it is. We acknowledge the thoughts about the past and future that come to mind, but we do not dwell on them. When you live in the now, you hear the birds, smell the flowers, taste the wine, feel the breeze ruffling your hair or, put less practically, you immerse yourself in whatever task you have currently taken on. Not only is it hugely beneficial for wellbeing, it also makes you more productive at work."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Ambition is the base—the foundation for success. Why? Because success is not an accident—you won’t get it unless you admit that you want it, unless you sit up and tell yourself that you’ve got big goals and it’s time to go out and get them. You’ll still need discipline and patience, but ambition is the engine that will help you keep your passion hot and get you where you want to go."
-- Peter S. Temes
"So it makes sense to think of success as a process rather than as a final goal; this approach is better for our emotional health as well as our careers. It is better to build up good habits and make a long-term effort to maintain them."
-- Deborah Olson
"‘It’s the same lesson I learnt in that cell. What you have to do is live for the day, you have to say, now is life, this very moment. It’s not tomorrow, it’s not yesterday, it’s now, so you have to live it as fully as you can. Invest in every day.’"
-- Richard Reed
"Sometimes the difference between making it happen and not making it happen (achieving something and not achieving something) is just the difference between actually doing it and simply not doing it, or believing it will happen or believing it won’t.
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Your negative or self-limiting beliefs are the brakes or barriers to your success, whether or not they are true. And the great discovery is that most of your self-limiting beliefs are not true at all. They are the result of something that someone has said to you, something you read or heard in a class or that you picked up along the way without giving it much thought."
-- Brian Tracy
"With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value. An hour in every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would, if profitably employed, enable a person of ordinary capacity to go far towards mastering a science."
-- Samuel Smiles
"Sometimes you have to take risks. I’ve taken many, but they’ve all been calculated. There’s a big difference between calculated risk and risky behavior. Risk is what billionaire hedge fund managers assess before making a stock trade. Risky behavior is what teenagers do in the back of parked cars."
-- Bobby Bones
"When you stop demanding that you need more and are able to be satisfied with what you have, you’ll reap tremendous benefits in life. You’ll move forward with a sense of peace and contentment without experiencing bitterness and selfishness."
-- Amy Morin
"Aim small. You don’t want to shoulder too much to begin with, given your limited talents, tendency to deceive, burden of resentment, and ability to shirk responsibility. Thus, you set the following goal: by the end of the day, I want things in my life to be a tiny bit better than they were this morning. Then you ask yourself, “What could I do, that I would do, that would accomplish that, and what small thing would I like as a reward?”"
-- Jordan B. Peterson
"You can have all the potential in the world but without focus your abilities and talent are useless. In the way that sunlight can’t burn through anything without a magnifying glass, you can’t achieve anything unless a goal is focusing your effort."
-- Ros Taylor
"It is not accident, then, that helps a man in the world so much as purpose and persistent industry. To the feeble, the sluggish and purposeless, the happiest accidents avail nothing,— they pass them by, seeing no meaning in them. But it is astonishing how much can be accomplished if we are prompt to seize and improve the opportunities for action and effort which are constantly presenting themselves."
-- Samuel Smiles
"Negative thinking creates a spiral of unhelpful thoughts and difficult feelings. Even when good things happen, negative thinkers tend to see the negative aspects of a situation."
-- Gill Hasson
"Get unstuck. This starts with making a decision to change your situation. This takes a tremendous amount of courage. When you make this commitment / empowered decision, amazing things start to happen and opportunities present themselves."
-- Megan Tull
"The choice to try something that might seem crazy, but to try it with a whole heart, with discipline over time, and without regard for how other people see you. Being different, challenging the old ways of doing things, and proving that there is always a choice to make your own path to success will be threatening to people who lack the courage to make their own good fortune."
-- Peter S. Temes
"What you believe about yourself and your situation will also determine your action—or inaction. Mindsets, in other words, are what keep us motivated, dictate our decisions, and determine our behavior."
-- Sten Morgan
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves, will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them."
-- Samuel Smiles
"When I say have the right mindset, I am thinking about responsibility. People who take responsibility have no need to blame others or to be continually finding fault. These are the naysayers who never amount to much, and never manage to contribute much either. Don’t join their club. They’re the lowest common denominator."
-- Donald Trump
"I have never met a child that is not fascinated by our natural world, the animal kingdom and the wonders within it. It is only as we get older that we sometimes lose that sense of wonderment. But I think we would all be better off if we kept it. So my advice is to never lose that, do what you can to always keep that sense of magic with our natural world alive."
-- Sir David Attenborough
"Just work hard and be passionate. If I’ve taught my kids one thing, it’s to be passionate. I’m passionate about food, my friends, my wife, passionate about our house, our dog. I’m passionate. I get up and I’m passionate – my father believed in it and that’s the one thing he taught me, that life is amazing and it’s full of people you haven’t met yet, music you haven’t heard, books you haven’t read. And if you start each day looking for something to be passionate about, mostly you won’t be disappointed because every day you’ll find something that’ll make you say, look at that, that’s so cool."
-- Sandi Toksvig
"Every disaster, or seeming disaster, in life can usually be turned around and something creative can emerge from it. ‘That is not to say such suffering is not difficult and damn hard, but it doesn’t need be totally destructive. It’s the way you approach it, and the way you approach life after.'"
-- Richard Reed
"It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by successive generations of men, the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid."
-- Samuel Smiles
"Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant—even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: “Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
-- Cal Newport
"If you learn to think differently, you will start to see better results in your personal and professional life."
-- Pat Mesiti
