Inspirations & Motivations

TIM WILLARD

A collection of inspirations and motivations I've come across over the years which have given me cause to stop and reflect on life, the universe and everything... Perhaps some may resonate with you?

'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

'Values are likefingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you
do'

Elvis Presley

'A river does not cut through rock because of its power but because of its persistence.'

Anon.

'Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.'

Ghandi

Happiness equals reality minus expectations

Rakesh Sarin & Manel Baucells

_{'What got you here won’t get you there…you can’t stop learning! '}
_{Marshall Goldsmith}

^{'Truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Just let it lose and it will defend itself.'}
^{St Augustine}

'You do not rise to the level of your goals.
You fall to the level of your systems.'

James Clear

'The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded.
Sometimes destroyed.'

Ernest Hemingway

_{Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter}

^{'Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain Why.

Simon Sinek}

_'I_{t is never too late to be what you might have been.'}

_{George Eliot}

_{' Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.}

_{Mark Cuban}

_{'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends}

_{Martin Luther King, Jr}

_{‘Never forget who helped you out when everybody else was making excuses’}

_Anon.

^{_{'The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams'}}

^{_{Elanor Roosevelt}}

_{'We rise by lifting others'

Robert Ingersoll}

^{'Everything seems impossible until it is done'

Nelson Mandela}

_{'Leaders don't have to be years ahead, just minutes ahead of the market, the competition and those they lead'

Verne Harnish}

^{'If a fight is inevitable then the sooner the better'}

^{Christopher Barlow Niland}

'It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.'

Mark Twain

'You'll achieve more chasing the dream, not the competition.'

Anon.

'Three things in life - your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it.'

Naval Ravikant

'Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination.

The best is yet to come…'

Anon.

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good ~~men~~ people to do nothing...'

Edmund Burke

'Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.’

Howard Stevenson

'You don’t have to be great to start,
but you do have to start to be great!'

Zig Ziglar

'Changemaking happens when people fall in love with a different version of the future.'

Seth Godin

'First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.'

Ghandi

'On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become'

Anon.

'Our secret is that we don’t lie to get the project.'

Seth Godin

'It's better to endure the discomfort of the truth now than suffer the discomfort of the lie later.'

Simon Sinek

'Care enough to confront'

Anon.

'An eye for an eye eventually leaves everyone blind...'

Anon.

_{'If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.'}
_Anon.

_{'Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.'}
_{Sonia Ricotti}

'The beauty of life is, while we can't undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it
and change.'

Anon.

^{'Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.'

Dalai Lama}

_{'Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius'}

_{Josh Billings}

_{I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.}

_{Steven Covey}

_{Your circle should want to see you win. Your circle should clap loudly when you have good news.
If not, get a new circle.}

_Anon.

_{Deja poo... the feeling you've done this shit before...}

_Anon.

_{'Relationships never die a natural death. They are murdered by ego, attitude and ignorance'

Anonymous Buddha Teaching}

^{'...that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.'

African Proverb}

^{_{'The best way out is always through'
Robert Frost}}

^{'Good artists copy, great artists steal '
Pablo Picasso
as quoted by Steve Jobs}

'If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done…'

Anon.

'A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed...'

Anon.

'The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
Don’t settle.'

Steve Jobs

'It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.'

Vince Lombardi

^{_{'The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.}}
^{_{The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference.}}
^{_{The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference.}}^{_{And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference.'}}^{_{Elie Wiesel}}

'In life, if you help enough people get what they want, you get what you want'

Zig Ziglar

'Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan...'

Simon Sinek

'Whenever life gets you down...pause for a moment. Take time to reflect. Remind yourself of who you are. Appreciate yourself. Love yourself. '
Anon.

^{'People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills.}
^{There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.'}
^{Marcus Aurelius}

'People value one at the value one places on oneself.'

Anon.

'Warrior asked Fear, “How can I defeat you?”

Fear replied, “If you don’t do what I say, I have no power.” '

Anon.

'Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds... '

Albert Einstein

'Lucky people don't get lucky, they create lucky by taking bold risks and seizing excellent opportunities (that deliver great rewards) '

Anon.

_{'Critics only criticize because at some level they care...'}
_{Tommy from Robin Sharma's}
_{The Leader who had No Title}

_{'Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing.

Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.'

Simon Sinek}

_{'A mind exposed to a new idea never regains it original dimensions'}
_{Oliver Wendell Holmes}

^{'Do not see my being kind to you as my being weak.}
^{for I have boundaries.}
^{I know who I am and how I want to be treated.}
^{I will be fair with you and I expect fairness in return.}
^{I know when and how to stand up for myself.}
^{I stand for everyone being responsible and kind with others.'}
^Anon.

_{'You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending'

CS Lewis}

_{'I'm FINE -Feelings Inside Not Expressed'

Anon.}

_{'As goes the leadership team, so goes the rest of the company'

Verne Harnish}

^{'Unlike a Hyundia, friendships don't come with a 7 year warranty'

Tim Willard}

_{'Everything will be okay in the end...If its not okay, its not the end.'

John Lennon}

_{'If you want to find meaning, stop chasing after so many things..'}
_Ryokan

_{'Tell the truth... that way you don't have to remember what you said'}

_Anon.

'Our passion lies deep in who we are, not what we do.'

Simon Sinek

^{'Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is not being served'}
^Anon.

'To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.'

Anatole France

'Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.'

Jalal ud-Din Rumi

_{' Don't curse the dead ends and the failures. They're the key element of the work you're doing. We find our way by getting lost. Anything other than that is called reading a map.'}
_{Seth Godin}

'Build a Team so strong no one can point out the leader'

Anon.

'Success is the ability to move from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm '

Winston Churchill

_{'If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room'}_{Anita Roddick, Body Shop}

'The word governance finds it roots in the Latin word “gubernare” which means 'to steer'. Corporate governance therefore essentially refers to steering a business.'

Anon.

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

John F. Kennedy

'Trust doesn't come with a refill. Once its gone you'll probably never get it back and if you do it will never be the same.'

Anon.

^{_{'Great people construct monuments with the stones their critics throw at them...'}}
^{_{Anna from Robin Sharma's,}}
^{_{The Leader who had No Title}}

'You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning'

Anon.

'Money, influence and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverance.'

Orison Swett Marden

_{' I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.'}
_{Carl Jung}

^{_{'Never be ashamed of what you feel.}}
^{_{You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.'}}
^{_{Dalai Lama}}

_{'Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.'}
_{Robert Tew}

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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter

_{Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter}