Nido R Qubein famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Circumstances

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

#Motivational #Giving #Matter

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Inspirational #Goal #People

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

#Inspiration #Goal #Matter

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Inspirational #Pain #Regret

Change brings opportunity.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Change #Opportunity

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

#Dream #Positivity #Goal

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

#Light #Goal #Achievement

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Risk #Growing #Process

When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Finding Yourself #Looks #Levels

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#People #Focus #Achievement

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Communication #Organization #Corporations

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

#Spiritual #Passion #May

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

#Want #Trails #Walks

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Inspirational #Running #Fire

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

#Life #Motivational #Success

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

#Teacher #Thinking #What If

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
-- Nido R Qubein

#Attitude #Commitment #Heart

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Educational #Training #Teach

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

#Strong #Commitment #Effort

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Leader #Want #Followers

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

#Teaching #People #Around The World

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Wish #More Time #Fund

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Mean #Desire #Balance

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

#Teacher #Teaching #Skills

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Perseverance #People #Gears

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Goal #Vision #Way

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Motivation #Mean #Frustration

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
-- Nido R Qubein

#Growth #Adjusting #Temperature

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Opportunity #Growth #Acting

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

#Goal #Perspective #Important

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Inspirational #Thinking #Anxiety

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Play #May #Gone

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Successful #Focus #Want

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

#Opportunity #Missing #Best Opportunity

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.
-- Nido R Qubein

#People #Firsts #Lasts

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
-- Nido R Qubein

#May #Succeed #Failing

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.
-- Nido R Qubein

#Want #Action #Achieve