A collection of quotes that kept me going through the years of developing Gainstorming®.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I still do.

Success

  • Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

    - Albert Einstein

  • If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

    - Steve Jobs

  • The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

    - Jim Rohn

  • Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

    - Mary Kay Ash

  • Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

    - C.S. Lewis

  • I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

    - Steve Jobs

  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

    - Winston Churchill

  • People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's that simple.

    - Earl Nightingale

  • When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

    - Estee Lauder

  • Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

    - Mark Twain

  • A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

    - Joyce Meyer

  • Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

    - Vince Lombardi

  • Failure is actually not the worst outcome—not even trying is a much worse outcome.

    - Leo Babauta

  • Want to be more innovative? Ask better questions.

    - Rhett Power

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

    - Will Rogers

  • Solve more problems, solve bigger problems, solve problems more widely and you're an entrepreneur.

    - Seth Godin

  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

    - Henry Ford

  • You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate..

    - Jeff Bezos

  • There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

    - Paulo Coelho

  • Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

    - Scott Adams

  • Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.

    - Langston Hughes

Work

  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

    - Albert Einstein

  • Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.

    - Peter T. McIntyre

  • If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

    - Albert Einstein

  • Belief and fanaticism is what got me through the tough times.

    - Brett J. Fox

  • People are rewarded in public for what they've practiced for years in private.

    - Tony Robbins

  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

    - Thomas Edison

  • It‘s not that I‘m so smart, it‘s just that I stay with problems longer.

    - Albert Einstein

  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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

  • If you know your why you can endure any how.

    - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • If your mind can think of the question, then the answer already exists. 

    - Angela Strank

  • The present moment is where there is no self-judgment based on past mistakes and no fear about the future.

    - Hellen Buttigieg

  • Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

    - Ella Fitzgerald

  • People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

    - Unknown

  • Don’t listen to the critics.

    - Will Ferrell

  • A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth ... The words are no more than signposts.

    - Eckhart Tolle

  • Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

    - Napoleon Hill

  • I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

    - Thomas Edison

Quality

  • It's hard to see the world in a new way when you're doing things the same old way.

    - Dorie Clark

  • Each one of us must experience one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Which pain will you choose?

    - Jim Rohn

  • Two things define us: Our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.

    - George Bernard Shaw

  • It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

    - John Willard Marriott

  • Quality is never an accident: it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution.

    - William A. Foster

  • Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 

    - Henry Ford

  • Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

    - Tony Robbins

  • The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.

    - Tommy Lasorda

  • Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

    - Jim Rohn

  • Curiosity seems to be the precursor to creativity and innovation.

    - Lawton Ursrey

  • If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

    - Reid Hoffman

  • The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.

    - Warren Buffett

  • Expressing gratitude and providing recognition aren't hard to do. They cost you next to nothing, and yet pay daily dividends. You can't ask for a better investment than that."

    - The Leadership Challenge

  • If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it's stupid.

    - Albert Einstein

  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars.

    - Norman Vincent Peale

Choice

  • Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. 

    - Andy Warhol

  • The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

    - Albert Einstein

  • Paradoxically but wonderfully, focusing on someone else’s happiness will actually make you happier. 

    - A.J. Jacobs

  • The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

    - Eckhart Tolle

  • If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

    - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. 

    - Frederick Keonig

  • Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

    - Marylin Monroe

  • Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.

    - Chuck Close

  • Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will...

    - Unknown

  • Do not think for one minute that because you are who you are, you cannot be who you imagine yourself to be. Hold fast to those dreams and let them carry you into a world you can't even imagine.

    - Jedidah Isler

  • When you make a choice, you change the future.

    - Deepak Chopra

  • You're not broken, you're just reacting to your unconscious programming.

    - Christopher Duncan

  • Love keeps no record of wrongs.

    - 1 Cor 13:4-13

  • Every artist was first an amateur.

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

    - Unknown

  • No matter how tired or afraid you are, you have to figure out how to keep going.

    - Richard Branson

  • Not everyone who ran after a Gazelle caught it. But he who caught it ran after it.

    - Old Persian Saying

  • We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

    - Simon Sinek

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