52 Quotes to Keep You on Track in 2016
At this time of the year, people are focused on New Year’s resolutions, but what if you instead focused on your intentions, make a commitment to persevere, so that you achieve your goals. Making a commitment to yourself to succeed is very powerful. My three words for 2016 are Connect, Learn, and Invest, and those are important words for me, but I will only achieve those when I have a clear intention and persevere during tough times.
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Intention
“Our intention creates our reality.” Wayne Dyer
“Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.” Dustin Moskovitz
“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.” Phylicia Rashad
“The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.” Brene Brown
“It is not good enough for things to be planned – they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.” Walt Kelly
“When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.” Otto von Bismarck
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” John Burroughs
“This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.” Gary Zukav
“I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.” Russell Simmons
“I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.” Pauline Marois
“I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society – and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.” Zachary Quinto
“Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.” Mehcad Brooks
“You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if you're going to be happy and authentic. Food isn't supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.” Jorge Cruise
“I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.” Kelsea Ballerini
“You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.” Tommy Lee
Perseverance
“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” Marie Curie
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams
“Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.” Ricky Martin
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” Victor Hugo
“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” Ramana Maharshi
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” Julie Andrews
“I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important.” Paul Dano
“Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?” Orison Swett Marden
“Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.” Wendy Davis
“The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.” Eric Ries
“We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.” Wendy Kopp
“The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.” Azim Premji
“Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.” Cyrus McCormick
The road to perseverance lies by doubt. Francis Quarles
“When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.” Lakshmi Mittal
“Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.” Samuel Smiles
“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.” Eric Ries
Achievement
“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.” Luc de Clapiers
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” Napoleon Hill
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” Golda Meir
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” Paul Ryan
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” Bo Bennett
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Don't confuse honours with achievement.” Zadie Smith
“If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.” Alex Lifeson
“The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. Charles J. Givens
“It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements – it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.” Adam Clayton
“It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.” Robert Plant
“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.” Nathaniel Branden
“We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.” Tullian Tchividjian
“Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.” Ken Robinson
“I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.” Timothy Ferriss
“Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.” George Lucas
“Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.” Susan L. Taylor
“The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.” Ezra Taft Benson
