Positive Encouragement #6

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
— Alice Walker

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing
a single thing I wanted to do.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

“By doing a little bit each day, you can get a lot accomplished.” — Gretchen Rubin

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
— Bono

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure
you do things differently from everyone else.” — Sara Blakely

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The first step is you have to say that you can.” — Will Smith

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think
positively.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve

“Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy,
doubt, or fear.” — Dan Millman

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Ghandi

“When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have
the same power of will the next time.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“Willpower is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve
the greatest things in life, if you will keep the current on.” — Elsie Lincoln Benedict

“You may lack willpower, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take a lot of steps to make yourself
more productive.” — John Perry

“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.”
— Mark Twain
“Even a good decision, made for the wrong reasons, can be a wrong decision.”
— Jonathan Pryce

“Solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem are the core ingredients of good
decisions.” — Colin Powell

The key to good decision-making is not knowledge. It’s understanding.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to

have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you
right into your purpose.” — T.D. Jakes

“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” — Washington Irving

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” — John F. Kennedy

“The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not
impossible to reach.” — Rick Hansen

“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
— Les Brown

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your
decision to get there.” — Zig Ziglar

“Your goals should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.”
— Rick Hansen

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.” — Socrates

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at
some point in order to move forward.” — C.S. Lewis

“I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.”
— Bob Hope

“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“You can either live on purpose, according to a plan you’ve set — or live by accident, reacting to
the demands of others.” — Michael Hyatt

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.” — Will Smith

“Life doesn’t get any easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.”
— Steve Maraboli

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” — Angela Duckworth

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up
again.” — Nelson Mandela

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

“Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” — Robert Collier

“Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about life will be your experience of life.”
— Neale Donald Walsch

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“The fun part doesn’t come later, now is the fun part.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.” — Tallulah Bankhead

“Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a
person has yet to learn.” — Lowell Milken

“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into
habit. And the habit hardens into character.” — Gautama Buddha

“Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful
words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a
magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.”
— Mark Victor Hansen

“Giving appreciation, praise, and gratitude feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.”
— Jude Bijou

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the
most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
— Golda Meir

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” — Les Brown

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell

“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn

“In order to have more success, be willing to accept more failure. If you’re not failing, you’re not
trying hard enough.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within
us.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.” — Tyra Banks

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in
luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” — Orison Swett Marden

“People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.”
— David A. Bednar

“A life lived with integrity, even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star in
whose light others may follow in the years to come.” — Denis Waitley

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you
truly want to become.” — Steve Jobs

“If you want to move forward, let go of the past that drags you down.” — Amit Ray

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra

“You can’t change anyone else — as tempting as it is to try. You can only change yourself.”
— Gretchen Rubin

“I demolish my bridges behind me, so there is no choice but to move forward.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence.” — Helen Keller
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” — Stan Smith

“Merely making and sticking to a decision is a source of happiness, because this action gives you
a feeling of control, of efficacy, of responsibility.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without

regret or reservation.” — W.H. Sheldon

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are
happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats

“People are more likely to make progress on goals that are broken into concrete, measurable
actions with some kind of structured accountability and positive reinforcement.”
— Gretchen Rubin

“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” — Anne Frank

“The chief happiness for a man is to be what he is.” — Erasmus

“Radical happiness projects — such as Henry David Thoreau’s move to Walden Pond, can be
exhilarating — the fresh start, the total commitment, the leap into the unknown. But you don’t
have to reject your life in order to be happier.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Do you want to be part of the problem? Or part of the solution?” — Dr. Donna Dannenfelser

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet

“Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.” — Eric Hoffer

“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately,
they had better aim at something high.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.” — Charles Baudelaire

“A man is not only happy but wise also, if he is trying, during his lifetime, to be the sort of man
he wants to be found at his death.” — Thomas a Kempis

“Carpenters fashion wood; fletchers fashion arrows; the wise fashion themselves.” — Buddha

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend
them!” — Benjamin Franklin
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

“Action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct
control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.” — William James

“I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“Not every end is a goal. A melody’s end is not its goal; nevertheless, so long as the melody has
not reached its end, it also has not reached its goal.” — Nietzsche

“Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.”
— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
— Guillaume Appollinaire

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are
moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.” — Plutarch

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” — Pubilius Syrus

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” — Seneca

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t give up. The beginning is always the hardest.” — Unknown

“Passion is the difference between having a job or having a career.” — Susan Leonard

“Your dream job does not exist. You must create it.” — Unknown

“Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.” — Louise Hays

“Job searching is like a piñata … if you hit it hard enough, you’ll be rewarded.” — Unknown