17 QUOTES TO KICK YOU IN THE PANTS + THE OPTIMISTS CREED

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless – Jamie Paolinetti

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Goethe

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt     

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. – E. Joseph Cossman

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Dr. Denis Waitley

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change what I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. – The Serenity Prayer

The ancestor of every action is a thought – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. –Robert Anthony

That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?  – Why not you, why not now… –Timothy Ferriss

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. –E.E. Cummings

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. –Trina Paulus

THE OPTIMISTS CREED

I Promise Myself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet.

To give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I amtrue to the best that is in me.

– Charles D. Larson

What are some of your favorite quotes? Post to the comments below.

Justin

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