My Daily Routine Includes Motivational Quotes – Does Yours?

 If you have known me for a while, you know that I love quotes. Not a single day goes by where I don’t use them or add a couple of new ones to my collection. Motivational quotes have become a part of my daily routine.

Why are quotes so popular?

Well, for starters they inspire, motivate, encourage and empower us. They give us hope, they teach and at times they even make us laugh.

“Bessie Braddock (to Winston Churchill): Winston, you’re drunk. Churchill: Bessie, you’re ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.”

Sometimes they are the golden words of great leaders leaving behind their wisdom in just a few simple words. Other times they are the empowering and encouraging words of successful people we are looking up to.

Walk into any doctor or dentist’s office and most likely you will find some pictures with quotes hanging on the walls. My husband, who recently was called for jury duty even found quotes hanging on the walls of the court house.

Why?

Because people want to be surrounded by positive thoughts. With all the negativity around us we are clinging to those things that are positive, that give us hope, encourage us.

If you have a MLM home based business like I do, then you know, that there will be times when things don’t go smoothly. The road to success is paved with many obstacles and challenges. It takes courage, persistence and perseverance to stay the course.

Quotes are the perfect “motivational candy” I need to keep me going, keep me motivated and inspired when I hit a rough patch either in my personal life or in my business.

I would like to share 25 of my favorite motivational quotes with you.

Here they are in no particular order. It will be really hard to pick just 25…

1. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”.  _Author Unknown
2. You are today where your thoughts brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” _James L. Allen
3. “GREAT stands for: Get Ready for Everything And Try.” _Author Unknown
4. “It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.” _W. Somerset Maugham
5. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” _Isaac Newton
6. “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” _ Les Brown
7.  “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” _Friedrich Engels
8. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” _Vince Lombardi
9. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” _Vincent T. Lombardi
10. “Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” _Thomas Huxley
11. “Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open.” _Author Unknown
12. “I Could Have Quit $10,000,000.00 ago.” _Dayle Maloney“
13. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” _Albert Einstein
14. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying… “I will try again tomorrow.” _ Mary Anne Rademacher
15. “Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction.” _Author Unknown
16. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” _Brian Tracy
17. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” _Martin Luther King
18. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.” _Jim Rohn
19. “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” _Zig Ziglar
20. “It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish that counts.” _ Zig Ziglar
21. “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.” _Rich DeVos
22. “To begin is the most important part of any quest, and by far, the most courageous.” _ Plato
23. “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. “ _Napoleon Hill
24. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.” _Walt Disney
25. “That’s why when people say, ‘Zig, motivation doesn’t last’ I say… ‘Bathing doesn’t either, that’s why I recommend it daily!” _Zig Ziglar

Like I said motivational quotes have become part of my daily routine.

I just simply love them and I love to share them with others.

Here are a couple of ways I do that…

I tweet them out to my followers on Twitter.

I share them with my friends on Facebook.

I add them to blog comments.

I send them out in greeting cards.

If you can come up with other ideas on how to share motivational quotes or if you would like to add your own favorites, I’d love to hear them. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.

To Your Success…

Ilka Flood

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