“Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. They have spent their lives reaching for the future. What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them… and the first thing they knew the future became the past.’ ~ William Allen White
“For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, ‘yesterday ended last night.’ It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it’s done, and today is a new day.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters
“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters
“You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There’s no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don’t spring up overnight… Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” ~ Seth Godin
“It is difficult to feel accomplished when you’re not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something ‘for your own good’ is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“You can think of creativity as applied imagination.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“We don’t know who we can be until we know what we can do.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element
“Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don’t know – Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, TED
10 Empowering James Allen Quotes from As A Man Thinketh
Excerpt: Read our 10 quotes from As A Man Thinketh and learn more about the power of thinking positively and the effect it has on all areas of life.
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