Nido R Qubein Quotes

Change brings opportunity.

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

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

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.

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

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

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

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

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.

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.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

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

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.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.

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

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.

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

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

The time is now, the person is you.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

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

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

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.

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

Simmering resentment saps energy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

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