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Motivational Quotes:
Attitude, Vision and Direction

Alice came to the fork in the road.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Start where you are.
- Edgar Cayce

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

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
- Henry Ford

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
- Abraham Maslow

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but by what we settle for.
- Alan Cohen

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
- James Broughton

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
- Glen Beaman

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
- Æschylus

Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
- Hugh Prather

The only difference between a weed and a flower is a judgment.
- Wayne Dyer

Aim at nothing and you will hit it every time.
- Unknown

First we form habits, then they form us.
- Rob Gilbert

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- Ronald Laing

We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can -- our attitude.
- John Maxwell

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone.
- Roy R. Gilson

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.
- Richard Wilkins

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft

Goals too clearly defined can become blinders.
- Mary Catherine Bateson

We must be careful to build our life around our visions, rather than building our visions out of our history.
- Alan Cohen

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- Lee Iacocca

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
- Emile Chartier

Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions,
it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.
- Gary Ryan Blair

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzbyski

It is not enough to know how to ride. You must also know how to fall.
- Mexican Proverb

It is easy to be brave from a distance.
- Omaha Proverb

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos
- Jim Hightower

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
- Alfred A. Montapert

There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: sit on an acorn; make friends with a bird; climb it.
- Unknown

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a terrible warning.
- Catherine Aird

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How long should you try? Until.
- Jim Rohn

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more brick layers.
- Colleen C. Barrett

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb