Best 62 quotes of Nido R Qubein on MyQuotes

Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Change brings opportunity.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.

It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

Many people are unable to prepare for the future because they are too busy reliving the past.