Some Motivation and Inspiration for a Friday

byNeilFirth

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10 years ago

To celebrate another Friday at WA, I thought I'd share the latest page from my website http://improveyoursingingvoice.com which includes some of my all time favourite motivational phrases and inspirational quotes. These motivate and inspire me every day to get up and take action and not to sit back and allow opportunities to slip through my fingers.

My Top Ten Motivational Phrases

1. When you shoot for the moon and you come up short, you still end up among the stars.

Les Brown, author and motivational speaker

2. Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you shouldn't do something.

Earl Nightingale, founder Nightingale Conant, Inc.

3. The only goal you can't accomplish is the one that you don't go after!

Villas Ozols, President Ozols Business Group

4. Go as far as you can see, when you get there you'll see further.

Latvian proverb

5. What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill, author "Think and Grow Rich"

6. Luck favours momentum.

Unknown

7. The problem with punctuality, is that nobody is there to appreciate it!

Latvian proverb

8. When your values are clear, your decision-making is easy.

Roy "Walt" Disney

9. Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Unknown

10. The trouble with being in a rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lilly Tomlin, actress and comedian

My Favourite Inspirational Quotes for Taking Action

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Nothing happens until I make it happen.

Contributed by: Scott Wilson

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.

Michelle Keesling

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualise their vision.

W. Clement Stone

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is practised not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Genuine

Never confuse motion with action.

Benjamin Franklin

Just Do It!

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As I grow older, I pay less to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Wayne Dyer

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Do or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Marcia Wieder

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Louis Bergson

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.

Source Unknown

Good intentions are not good enough... ultimately we are measured by our actions.

Source Unknown

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

William Feather

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

To do nothing is in every man's power.

Samuel Johnson

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Alfred A. Montapert

Please leave a comment here and at http://improveyoursingingvoice.com if you have any personal motivational phrases or inspirational quotes you wish to share with us all here at WA. After reading these, I now hope you enjoy an even more fulfilling day!

Best wishes

Neil