Positive Self Talk – at all times!

by | Jan 27, 2010 | Cartoon Motivators

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. Ralph Charell.(So keep it positive at all times!)

If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh (People used to say to me “You gonna be a cartoonist? Get a real job!” I silenced them!)

Although some of the self talk I heard people using was constructive and beneficial, most of it was the opposite – the kind of self talk that was counter-productive and self-defeating.  Shad Helmstetter

You’ve got to PERSIST longer than the others!

by | Jan 26, 2010 | motivational quotes

I had to persist to become the freelance cartoonist that I’ve been for 27 years. In my early attempts rejection after rejection of my cartoons nearly broke me – I thought of quitting many times.(But only for a few seconds!) Whatever you want in life you can get it but it won’t come easy and it won’t come without heart ache. But if you persevere you’ll get there!

Here’s some of my favourite persistence/perseverence quote….

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright

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 ever before. Herodotus

Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone. Unknown

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Denis Waitley

Solving problems – inspirational quotes!

by | Jan 25, 2010 | motivational quotes

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positively. – Norman Vincent Peale

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitely

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. – Norman Vincent Peale

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.           – Norman Vincent Peale

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. – Norman Vincent Peale(Again! Clever guy our Norman!)

Are your brakes stopping you moving forward!?

by | Jan 25, 2010 | motivational quotes

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”

Mary Manin Morrissey