Having a positive mindset is critical to playing well consistently. Here are some great quotes from very wise individuals I have compiled over the last year. I hope these will motivate you and empower you to play your best poker!
"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" - Chinese Proverb
"The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control." - Pythagoras
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before." - Polybius
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions" - Stephen Covey
"People often say motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. " - Zig Ziglar
"Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can't use up creativity, the more you use the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
"Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Teach thy tongue to say, 'I do not know,' and thous shall progress." - Maimonides
"If you will change, everything will change. To have more, you simply have to become more. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills." - Jim Rohn
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach" - Tom Robbins
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." - Elbert Hubbard
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best." - Tim Duncan
"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." - William Longgood
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees" - Willard Marriott
"Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter" - Aisha Taylor
"You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path" - Les Brown
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves" - Thomas Edison
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous and eternal." - Barry Munro
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will." - Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi
"Our grand duty is not to see what lies in the dimly in the distance, but to do what is clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle
"One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition." - Chinese Proverb
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists." - Edward de Bono
"I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for our future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision." - Howard Schultz
"To keep from getting too far ahead of myself, I can apply to life what I have learned from running in the woods: The step in front of you is the most important one." - Annie Morris
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." - Joseph Campbell
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks that others throw at him" - Sidney Greenberg
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist" - Gail Sheehy
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in." - Wanda Carter
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"There's something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You're free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the deepest ocean. But you're free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing." - Deborah Smith
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." - Thomas Edison
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James Michener
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert J. Collier
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." - Calvin Coolidge
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Energy and persistence conquer all things" - Benjamin Franklin
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle or end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity..." - Gilda Radner
"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." - Joel Brown
"As you think, so shall you become" - Bruce Lee
"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it." - Winston Churchill
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men" - Plato
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao-Tzu
"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret." - Nido Qubein
"Failure is the condiment that gives success it's flavor" - Truman Capote
"One of things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged" - Lucille Ball
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course." - William Shakespeare
"What matters is not what idea a man holds, but at the depth at which he holds it." - Ezra Pound
"Those who dream by day are more cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination." - William Arthur Ward
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." - Jack Penn
"No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage." - Epictetus
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." - Walt Schmidt
"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." - Indian Proverb
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert Schuller
"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement" - Bo Bennett
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going." - Brian Tracy
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity" - Louis Pasteur
"Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get there. The road you take is what you'll look back on and call you life" - Tim Wiley
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
"You must not only aim right, but draw your bow with all your might." - Henry David Thoreau
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair
"The road to easy street goes through the sewer" - John Madden
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." - Teddy Roosevelt
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress" - Frederick Douglass
"Always make a total effort. Even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, you're never as bad as they say when you lose." - Lou Holtz
"Go as far as you can see and you will see further." - Zig Ziglar
"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be." - Jack Welch
"When you are following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly just slam at first." - Kelly Cutrone
"When you are following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly just slam at first." - Kelly Cutrone
"A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it." - Ray Davis
"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. " - Tim O'Reilly
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability" - Henry Ford
"Not having a goal is more to be feared than not reaching one." - fortune cookie
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset." - Tom Hopkins
"It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin
"We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." - Jacob Bronowski
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice a gift." - Steve Prefontaine
"We all have dreams, in order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort." - Jesse Owens
"You live longer once you realize time spent unhappy is wasted." - Ruth Renkl
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryan
"Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying." - Coleman Hawkins
"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent." - Tony Robbins
"All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move." - Benjamin Franklin
"Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals." - Bo Bennett
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." - Vince Lombardi
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan
"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another." - Alexander Graham Bell
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich." - Lao Tzu
"It's a job that is never started that takes longest to finish." - J.R.R.Tolkien
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"If you're walking down the right path and you are willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"To those who are given much, much is expected." - Maya Angelou
"Action is the foundational key to all success." -Pablo Picasso
"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots." - Victor Hugo
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" - Lao Tzu
"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing" - Bertie Forbes
"It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with." - William Merrick
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"A man without aim is like a clock without hands, as useless if it turns as if it stands" - fortune cookie
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang
"Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself." - Theodore Hunger
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." - Brian Tracy
"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer." - Marcia Wieder
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison
"The larger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of wonder." - Ralph Sockman
"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate it and use it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle
"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self." - Hindu Proverb
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn
