28 Motivational Quotes to Kickstart your Day this Week
Salman Aslam
Managing Director at Omnicore | Digital Marketing & PR Consultant | ?? Helping Businesses Scale through Holistic Digital Marketing | ? Accessibility Advocate
Do you feel down? Missing out on deadlines? Or you just want to have a bright start to your week. All you need is motivation, to become a better manager, a better employee, a better leader, a better entrepreneur and a better human.
When's the last time you received the powerful tonic called motivation to change your mindset? Don't worry because I'm here to to steer you with the help of amazing words.
Today is the day you succeed in connecting with that hard-to-reach prospect. Today is the day you close that particularly complex deal. Today is the day you go from being a good manager to a great one.
Today is the day to become a better, stronger and humble individual as it is the trait of successful people.
Let's start with the personality Billions respect and look up to.
1) "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness & kindness" – Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H)
2) "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily." – Zig Ziglar
3) "The Fears we don’t face become our limits" – Robin Sharma
4) "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine
5) "Those who are patient in adversity and forgive wrongs are the doers of excellent." – Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H)
6) "It always seems Impossible until it’s done" – Nelson Mandela
7) "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will." – Bob Hooey
8) "The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place." –Orison Swett Marden
9) "Hire character. Train skill." – Peter Schutz
10) "Without a customer, you don’t have a business -- all you have is a hobby." – Don Peppers
11) "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." – J. Paul Getty
12) "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." – Napoleon Hill
13) "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
14) "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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover:" – "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness & kindness" – Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H)
15) "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb
16) "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." –Christopher Columbus
17) "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou
18) "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford
19) "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain
20) "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
21) "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." – John Lennon
22) "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." – Bill Cosby
23) "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
24) “Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown
25) “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” – Unknwon
26) “Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon
27) "I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." – Steve Jobs
28) “It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.” – Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H)
What Are Your Thoughts?
Which one is your favorite? I'd love to know if any quotation changed your thought process, your mindset and had an impact in your life.
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About Salman: He is Chief Marketing Officer at Omnicore and a certified Digital Marketing Consultant and Hootsuite Ambassador Asia. Follow him on Twitter and Google+
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9 年I especially like the following quote, it's just great! I want to make it my motto as it really expresses how I feel about my life and business goals now. "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." – John Lennon