Motivational quotes to keep you going.

[justscrap]

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

 

[cragmatic]

 

[flatbushfiyah23]

from The Four Agreements

Be Impeccable with Your Word

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Impeccable means “without sin” and a sin is something you do or believe that goes against yourself. It means not speaking against yourself, to yourself or to others. It means not rejecting yourself. To be impeccable means to take responsibility for yourself, to not participate in “the blame game.”

Regarding the word, the rules of “action-reaction” apply. What you put out energetically will return to you. Proper use of the word creates proper use of energy, putting out love and gratitude perpetuates the same in the universe. The converse is also true.

Impeccability starts at home. Be impeccable with yourself and that will reflect in your life and your relationships with others. This agreement can help change thousands of other agreements, especially ones that create fear instead of love.

Don’t Take Anything Personally

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

We take things personally when we agree with what others have said. If we didn’t agree, the things that others say would not affect us emotionally. If we did not care about what others think about us, their words or behavior could not affect us.

Even if someone yells at you, gossips about you, harms you or yours, it still is not about you! Their actions and words are based on what they believe in their personal dream.

Our personal “Book of Law” and belief system makes us feel safe. When people have beliefs that are different from our own, we get scared, defend ourselves, and impose our point of view on others. If someone gets angry with us it is because our belief system is challenging their belief system and they get scared. They need to defend their point of view. Why become angry, create conflict, and expend energy arguing when you are aware of this?

Don’t Make Assumptions

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

When we make assumptions it is because we believe we know what others are thinking and feeling. We believe we know their point of view, their dream. We forget that our beliefs are just our point of view based on our belief system and personal experiences and have nothing to do with what others think and feel.

We make the assumption that everybody judges us, abuses us, victimizes us, and blames us the way we do ourselves. As a result we reject ourselves before others have the chance to reject us. When we think this way, it becomes difficult to be ourselves in the world.

Take action and be clear to others about what you want or do not want; do not gossip and make assumptions about things others tell you. Respect other points of view and avoid arguing just to be right. Respect yourself and be honest with yourself. Stop expecting the people around you to know what is in your head.

Always Do Your Best

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Doing your best means enjoying the action without expecting a reward. The pleasure comes from doing what you like in life and having fun, not from how much you get paid. Enjoy the path traveled and the destination will take care of itself.

Living in the moment and releasing the past helps us to do the best we can in the moment. It allows us to be fully alive right now, enjoying what is present, not worrying about the past or the future.

Have patience with yourself. Take action. Practice forgiveness. If you do your best always, transformation will happen as a matter of course.

Great book that has definitely had an impact on my life. I strive daily to live by these agreements.

 

[spizike231]

Not usually into body building videos.. but this one isn't too much about it. Great speech.

 

[sooperhooper]

Yo someone embed this. It's a sports center segment on a Ravens fan's email to their coach. Definitely worth a watch.

 

[r a w]

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

 

[ballislife32688]

“A life spent chasing dreams that never come true is better than a life spent running away from dreams that could have.” – Alan Aragon

 

[ballislife32688]

"If your heart is willing, you will find a thousand ways to get it done and succeed; if your heart is unwilling, you will find a thousand excuses."

 

[justscrap]

 

[justscrap]

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal

 

[Spectacular23]

Had to bump, this thread is just too

have some catching up to do.

 

[relentless]

Being afraid to fail only guarantees that you will.

 

[matt53]

Being afraid to fail only guarantees that you will.

Not trying to be a ****, but I disagree. Fear is the most powerful instinct we have and if you can harness it, it can drive you to new heights. Letting the fear control you, however, will seal your fate.

 

[relentless]

Not trying to be a ****, but I disagree. Fear is the most powerful instinct we have and if you can harness it, it can drive you to new heights. Letting the fear control you, however, will seal your fate.

I see where you're coming from but I don't think that's what the quote was going for, or at least that's not what I got from it. The way I interpreted it is that we oftentimes get so caught up in the idea of success that we don't give ourselves room for error, we don't forgive ourselves when we make mistakes. Failure is a part of life - as so many quotes in this same thread have attested to - and if we use that as motivation and learning points instead of trying to do every little thing we can to avoid it, I think we'll be infinitely richer for it.

Again, totally with you on the part about not letting our fear control us... open to interpretation, I guess.

Keep those posts coming.

 

[Moheezy]

Strive for perfection. Settle for excellence.

 

[justscrap]

 

[macbk]

Life leaves you a trail of breadcrumbs. Now go out and make some chicken cutlets.

-macbk

 

[slamcity]

“In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be.”

- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

 

[ballislife32688]

Today is your victory over yourself of yesterday. Tomorrow is your victory over lesser men - Miyamoto Musashi

 

[thegreatone]

You are you and I am I,

and if at the end we end up together...

its beautiful....

Boy Meets World lol

 

[freeze]

Laugh when you feel the need. Cry when you feel the need. Embrace everything in between.



- Me, earlier today.

I'm a walking quote spiller. I breathe inspirational philosophies. lol

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. Roy H. Williams

 

[rawex5]

Good things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln