SELF MOTIVATION - Quotes of My Selection

ABILITY

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

ABILITY

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

ACHIEVEMENT

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

ACTION

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowds.

Edward De Bono

AGE
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. 
Maurice Chevalier

AGE
A man growing old becomes a child again. 
Sophocles 

AGE
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. 
Bette Midler 

AGE
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. 
Helen Gurley Brown 

AGE
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 
Henry Ford 

AGE
As men get older, the toys get more expensive. 
Marvin Davis 

AGE
No man is ever old enough to know better. 
Holbrook Jackson 

AGE
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. 
Henry David Thoreau 

AGE
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. 
Stanislaw Lec 

AMBITION

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.

And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali

AMBITION

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.

Donald Trump

ATTITUDE

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

ATTITUDE
9 out of 10 contributions to success is attitude.
Faudzil Harun

BELIEF

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

BELIEF
Success begins with a correct belief.                                                                                        
Faudzil Harun

CALMNESS

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

CHANGE
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. 
Bruce Barton 

CHANGE
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. 
Ellen Glasgow 

CHANGE
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. 
Dean Acheson 

CHANGE
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. 
Bertolt Brecht

CHANGE
Change brings opportunity. 
Nido Qubein

CHANGE
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. 
Esther Dyson

CHANGE
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 
Leo Tolstoy 

CHANGE
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. 
Harold Wilson 

CHANGE
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. 
Gail Sheehy 

CHANGE
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. 
Maya Angelou 

CHANGE
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. 
Mary Douglas 

CHANGE
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. 
Mignon McLaughlin 

CHANGE
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

CHANGE
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. 
Margaret Mead 

CHANGE
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. 
Keri Russell 

CHANGE
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. 
Charles Kettering 

CHANGE
Things do not change; we change. 
Henry David Thoreau 

CHANGE
Things do not change by itself, we have to make the changes.
FaudzilHarun

CHANGE
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. 
Denis Waitley 

CHARACTER

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

COMMITMENT

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.                                               
Bill Gates

COMMITMENT

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.                                                               
Marie Curie

COURAGE

Share the glory with your followers' heart, while keeping the pains within your own.

Unknown

CREATIVITY

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Edward De Bono                                                                                                                                

CREATIVITY

"Everyone should seek to be creative, even though
creativity is full of risks and uncertainties."
Edward de Bono

CREATIVITY

Do you believe creativity is a learned skill? Or is it an inborn talent?
Edward de Bono

DISCIPLINE

“…. Not only must he be given a fair hearing, but the decision itself must be fair and reasonable. That is the protection given to every servant who is employed under a contract of service”

Lord Denning

DOING THE CORRECT THING

"You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing."
Dale Carnegie

DREAM

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

DREAM

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. 
Walt Disney

EDUCATION
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. 
Ernest Dimnet 

EDUCATION
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. 
Anthony J. D'Angelo 

EDUCATION
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. 
John Dewey 

EDUCATION

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Unknown

EFFORT
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. 
John F. Kennedy

EFFORT
Many people asked; “what happened” some asked; “how it happened”
but very few really wants to know “why it happened”.
Faudzil Harun

EGO

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

EXPERIENCE
Experience is the teacher of all things. 
Julius Caesar 

EXPERIENCE
We are the product of our own experience.
Faudzil Harun

EXPERIENCE
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. 
Albert Camus

EXPLORATION
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
Dale Carnegie   

FAITH
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. 
Khalil Gibran

FAITH
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

FORGIVENESS

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.                                                                                                       Mahatma Ghandi

FORGIVENESS
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 
Oscar Wilde 

FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. 
Suzanne Somers 

FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. 
Indira Gandhi

FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the final form of love. 
Reinhold Niebuhr 

FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the giving and receiving of the whole heart.
Faudzil Harun

FRIENDLY

If you want to win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart.

Abraham Lincoln

GOAL
You’ll never get what you want, unless you really know what you’re doing.                                                                     Faudzil Harun

HABIT

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Unknown

HISTORY

"Those who forget the lessons of history will be condemned to repeat their mistakes over and over again",

or words to that effect.

George Santayana

INITIATIVE

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Elbert Hubbard

INITIATIVE

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

LAUGHTER

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

LAW OF EMPLOYMENT

“It is no longer possible to treat an employee as an expendable chattel or an object without feelings and emotions".”

Selwyn

LEADER
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

LEADERSHIP
Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey

LEADERSHIP
Influence, clear vision and ability to energize people are the 3 keys to excellent leadership.
Faudzil Harun

LEADERSHIP
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
Unknown

LEADERSHIP
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Unknown

LEARNING

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, 
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

LIFE

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

LISTENING

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.

Stephen R. Covey

MIND

"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."
Brian Tracy                                                                                                                                                 

OPPORTUNITY

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

POSITIVE THINKING

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

PREPARATION

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

QUALITY

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

QUALITY

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi 

QUALITY

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. 
Aristotle

QUALITY

Only quality people can produce quality work which than produces quality products.

Faudzil Harun

RISK

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T S Eliot

SMILE

Reveal a genuine smile to everyone you meet.

Unknown

SUCCESS

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

TEAM

It is all about working together, striving together and winning together.

Faudzil Harun

TEAM PLAYER
A team player contributes his best for the team.
Faudzil Harun

TEAMWORK                                                                                                                                           
 Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progressing; Working together is success.                                                                                                                                   Henry Ford

THINKING

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.

Donald Trump

VISION

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift

VISION

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

WORK                                                                                                                                      
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.                                                                                              
Aristotle