Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be a man and work for your own comfort!
While it is okay to take some things for free at times it is never okay to be the mooch that never gives anything but lives off other people.
The lesson is easy: You want it? Go get it. Can’t get it? Learn how to do it and get it!
/phil
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Basil King
/phil
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Is is not enough to have good ideals or a good idea on what to do. You need to push through numerous times of repetition in order to adapt new habits and skills. DO IT!
/phil
Today I talked to a buddy at the university about nothing in particular when this happened:
Buddy: I’d be happy if I made more money than my professor some day.
Since we study economics I assured him that he probably will if he goes in the open economy
Him: Only if I am good at what I do.
Me: Well, are you?
Him: I don’t know if I will be
Me: Well, why wouldn’t you?
Him: How would I know, I have not written any tests so far
I could not believe that he actually said and believed that. He honestly thinks his success in tests and in university in general defines his later work life!
How can our school system fuck that hard with the mind of a young person? I can’t believe that people really think that way, this is so damn limiting!
What about following your dreams, believing in your ideas? What about the passion that young people always have? If you ask a child what he wants to be when he grows up he sure as hell won’t say: I wanna be a firefighter, but therefore I have to study hard and be an honorable person.
He will reply: I want to be James Bond, I want to be a firefighter, heck I want to be a billionaire!
I don’t say that education is not important or should be taken lightly but everything has to have boundaries and if you really think your success in several years from now on depends on how well you do in some tests right now, there must be something wrong.
How great must this pressure be? If I fail now, I won’t have a good job in ten years?
Wow, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT apply this attitude to your life!
Go where you want to go and take important tasks serious but damn have fun on the way and don’t worry too much. It will all work out! It always has and it always will work out, trust me on this one.
And now go out and enjoy yourself!
/phil
If you look on life carefully it seems to be an awful lot of waiting. But what for? In general the only thing which becomes better while you become older are your possibilites of consumption. Your mind and body fitness and regeneration decreases, responibilites increase…. but don’t be depressed.
You never will be as young as you are NOW. There will never be so much time to life left as NOW. And the one time chance to live your life is always NOW. So don’t wait for your 5-year plan to complete, don’t wait for summer, don’t wait till tommorow.
Live now…
/robin
You are an explorer! Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.
Every now and then you should check if you can still amaze yourself by taking a close look at the world around you…
/robin
BAM! I’m stoked!
This site is a little over one year young and yesterday night you guys made one of my dreams come true: 10 000 (Ten thousand) unique visitors on motivatingdaily.com!
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for reading, commenting, liking and sharing my thoughts and quotes! It means a lot to me since writing is something that gives me much joy and with this massive positive feedback it is just insanely rewarding!
Aprospros feedback: If you like this site, please tell your friends, please share my work! If you don’t like it on the other hand, go tell me. I can improve this project only with your honest feedback so no holding back here!
Thanks again and let’s hit the 100k!
/phil
Okay I just found this and had to share it with you.
It says you are a teenager but honestly who cares, this advice is pure gold for everyone!
And it goes out especially to one of my best bros who just turned 21 today, Happy Birthday man!
/phil
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn
That’s the magic in being a human. You can be happy and still strive for something better at the same time. You would be a fool if you did not use this power function of your brain!
/phil
Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
G.K. Nielson
It is not about talent, about having family money or being born in a certain city.
Success is about your inside, about youd mind and your soul. If you WANT success, if you are craving for success more than you crave for nothing else, then you will work hard in order to achieve it.
I can’t stress enough that behind all those “over night”-successes always lies a lot of hard work in the first place. Hard work is not often seen by the viewers and that is why success in general is often seen as a miracle, unfair distributed between all people.
Guess what? It is up to you to take your slice of the success-cake, the harder you work, the bigger it will be!
/phil
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