Motivation For Achievements II

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Goodbye! Goodbye!
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye.
Though it is hard to part, I know, don't cry!
Don't sigh!
There's a silver lining in the sky! Goodbye!

Great mind must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but also to make them.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Have patience and the mulberry leaf will become satin.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them; every day begin the task anew.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

How doth the little busy bee, improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day,from every opening flower.

However great the defeat is, it is always temporary. With better planning the next time, it can be converted into victory.

I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

If you want to get along, go along.

I would like to amend the idea of being in the right place at the right time. There are many people who were in the right place at the right time but didn't know it. You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

If you want to create something, you must be something.

Indecision is often worse than wrong action.

It is good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Achieving Your Dreams

by Jim Rohn

While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. And here sits the much larger group, wondering how life can be so unfair, so complicated and unjust. What's the major difference between the little group with so much and the larger group with so little?

Despite all of the factors that affect our lives - like the kind of parents we have, the schools we attended, the part of the country we grew up in - none has as much potential power for affecting our futures as our ability to dream.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path. To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well defined. A fuzzy future has little pulling power. Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy. Wishes are fuzzy. To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans pull you forward, your dreams must be vivid.

If you've ever hiked a fourteen thousand-foot peak in the Rocky Mountains, one thought has surely come to mind "How did the settlers of this country do it?" How did they get from the East Coast to the West Coast? Carrying one day's supply of food and water is hard enough. Can you imagine hauling all of your worldly goods with you... mile after mile, day after day, month after month? These people had big dreams. They had ambition. They didn't focus on the hardship of getting up the mountain.

In their minds, they were already on the other side - their bodies just hadn't gotten them there yet! Despite all of their pains and struggles, all of the births and deaths along the way, those who made it to the other side had a single vision: to reach the land of continuous sunshine and extraordinary wealth. To start over where anything and everything was possible. Their dreams were stronger than the obstacles in their way.

You've got to be a dreamer. You've got to envision the future. You've got to see California while you're climbing fourteen thousand-foot peaks. You've got to see the finish line while you're running the race. You've got to hear the cheers when you're in the middle of a monster project. And you've got to be willing to put yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. Because that's how you realize your dreams.