"...courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity 

to move ahead in spite of despair." Rollo May - 20th Century Existential Psychologist 

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower 

 "The excellence of daily life finally depends not on what we do, but on how we do it."   Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; It is not really the time but the will that is lacking."  Sir John Lubbuck

"I can show anyone how to get what they want. The only trouble is I can't find anyone who can tell me what they want." Mark Twain 

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."   G.K. Nielson 

"Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere." Harvey Mackay 

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed."  B.C. Forbes 

"Create the habit first which is the key to all success. Failure will never overtake you if  your determination to succeed is strong enough." Og Mandino 

"I ACT IN SPITE OF MY FEARS! 

I ACT IN SPITE OF MY DISCOMFORT 

I ACT IN SPITE OF INCONVENIENCE 

I ACT IN SPITE OF ANYTHING"   T.Harv Eker 

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can  do is nothing."  

Theodore Roosevelt 

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries lighting that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." Stephen R. Covey 

"Nothing will work unless you do" John Wooden

"Setting a goal is NOT the main thing.  It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and  staying with that plan." Tom Landry 

"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, and move." Brian Tracy

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." Denis Waitley

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun 

"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt much and winning is not very exciting."  Dick Vermeil 

"Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."  Charles Reader

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all.  

Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind 

 to new knowledge.  Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. 

 Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.  

We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. 

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform.  

And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us  

uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest  

over labor,  entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and  

doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we 

curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.  As Shakespeare  

uniquely observed,  "The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."  

We created our circumstances by our past choices.  We have both the  

ability and the responsibility to make  better choices beginning today.  

Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers  

or more time  to think things over to reach better conclusions.  

They need the truth. They need the whole truth.  

And they need nothing but the truth. 

We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated everyday,  to lead us  

down the wrong path.  We must keep coming back to those basics that  

make the biggest difference in how our life works out.  And then we must  

make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives. 

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking  

and needing to make changes in their life - If you don't like how things are, 

change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform  

every area in your life - and it all begins with your very own power of choice. 

Jim Rohn - author and motivational speaker 

www.jimrohn.com