How do you motivate yourself? Share your motivational quotes.

[mehmetke]

Hello mehmetke,

It is a wonderful thread you have started on one of my favourite subject. I sms one motivational quote every day to about 50 odd recipients. Here is one in lighter vein: (but has serious connotations)

"Motivation alone is not enough.....you motivate an idiot, and now you have a motivated idiot!?!"

Here are a few of my favourites:



8. Think POSITIVE!! Way too many people are already focussed on the negative.


Umang

What about " Think OPTİMAL"? True that many people are negative and way too many people are positive. Just a few OPTİMALs.

 

[Don Winton]

This one is mostly for myself:

If what you do does not matter, then the only thing that matters is what you do.

 

[yeshpal]

When asked about meaning of 'forgiveness' to a little girl! she replied "fragrance given by flower when it's been crushed".

 

[mngenigirl]

"The distance is nothing when one has a motive"

 

[mehmetke]

When asked about meaning of 'forgiveness' to a little girl! she replied "fragrance given by flower when it's been crushed".

What should we understand from your post? Explain please

 

[ralphsulser]

When asked about meaning of 'forgiveness' to a little girl! she replied "fragrance given by flower when it's been crushed".

Thank you for this post, it is very meaningful, and something we can all learn from.

 

[ddunn]

I try to remember who my real customer is. Not the one that pays the bill but the one who benefits from the end result.
When things get maddening I just stop and think “Do it for the Vet.”

 

[mehmetke]

Thank you for this post, it is very meaningful, and something we can all learn from.

Once upon time, there was a poor chinese man. He had two buckets and he had to carry water miles away from his home everyday. On of the buckets had a hole in the buttom and was leaking and becoming almost empty until he arrived his home.
One day, the bucket started speaking and asked him
- Why do you use me? I feel very sorry for you. Don't you see I am leaking.

The chinese man pointed the ground.

The ground was all covered with flowers.

 

[samsung]

What should we understand from your post? Explain please

Flowers don't stop giving fragrance (doing a good job) even if someone crushes them which proves they have forgiven the one who assaulted them. It's like "Turning the other cheek"

 

[mehmetke]

Flowers don't stop giving fragrance (doing a good job) even if someone crushes them which proves they have forgiven the one who assaulted them. It's like "Turning the other cheek"

I got it now. I give you another alternative, another way of thinking.

Jones' oldest daughter had just given birth to a beautiful baby and Jones was being congratulated.

He looked downcast, however, and a friend said, 'What's the matter, Jones? Don't you like the idea of being a grandfather?'
Jones heaved an enormous sigh. 'No,' he said, 'I don't, but that doesn't bother me so much. It is just that it is so humiliating to have to go to bed with a grandmother.'

Just watch your mind -- how it creates problems. The woman remains the same but now she has become a grandmother -- and one feels humiliated.

It is your idea that is giving you humiliation. If you are really concerned with your own well-being then nobody is hurting you -- just your own ideas. Drop them. From OSHO