Quotes to Motivate You

Sometimes all we need are a few words to motivate us. Here at Hearfind we have compiled a great list of inspiring stories to encourage you every day.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” – Barbara Baron

“If you continue to think they way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” – Kevin Trudeau

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”– Benjamin Disraeli

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.” – Benny Lewis

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

“Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.” – Bobby Unser

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

“Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”– Charles Dickens

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

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

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” – Dale Carnegie

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” – Denis Watiley

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

“Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.” – Dragos Roua For plenty more motivating words, check out Hearfind today.

The Inspiring Poem to Come From the Covid-19 Crisis

Dubbed "the poet laureate of the pandemic", retired teacher Kitty O'Meara from Madison, Wisconsin never expected to go viral. Yet her poem, "And the people stayed home," did exactly that. O'Meara, who recently worked in palliative care, told The Oprah Magazine that her poem was the result of an accumulation of months worth of anxiety surrounding the global pandemic, and says her poem “offers a story of how it could be, what we could do with this time." She posted the poem on her personal Facebook page and it has since been widely shared across the world via multiple platforms. The poem offers a message of hope for those struggling with the effects of the pandemic and resulting isolation.

The poem, "And the people stayed home" reads:

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

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