Motivational Posters

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GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
George Washington: "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
Thomas Jefferson: "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Abraham Lincoln: "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

PEOPLE
Everyone you meet, every day, is struggling to cope with life in this world. When people are tired, sick, afraid, or just overwhelmed with their failures and frustrations in life: they lie, they yell, they cheat, they blame; they are cold, angry, mean, jealous and deceitful. Try to imagine them at their best, as they would like you to see them: as the kind, generous, attractive, successful people they believe they would be, if only they had: a little more time, a little more rest, a little more money, a little more luck; if only life had been more fair to them. Forgive them for being human and weak, in a harsh world full of people suffering countless hurts both great and small. They forget, the truth everyone knows inside: there is more to life, so much more, beyond this temporary world. They don't know, most of what they do not have, most of what they can not do, is vastly overrated, and would neither satisfy them, nor even be worth the effort of their pursuit; because our desires often begin with the fear of missing out, and end with the realization of being duped, having anxiously chased after that which is devoid of any real value. Try to be happy today. Right now. Look around. Enjoy the simple things. The super-rich grow sick from overindulgence, weak, dull and sluggish from excessive leisure, bitter with disappointment from dead-end pleasures, blind to others, absorbed in themselves and their worries. You can grow in strength, confidence and contentment, better able to cope with the troubles you will face, by being grateful for the goodness and beauty in the world, the bright sun in the morning, the moon and stars at night, the sound of wind in a forest, the color of flowers in a field, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the taste of fresh-picked fruit, a cool drink of clean water when you are thirsty, a good night's sleep after a hard day's work. Do not rush through your day, wasting your energy. Slow down. Take time to plan. Get organized. Stop worrying. Do less, but do it better. Have less, but enjoy it more. Make the most of each day, being kind to others, patient, understanding and forgiving, in little ways that make a big difference, because life is sometimes hard, and there are so many people who need your help.

MOTIVATION
"Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power.” "I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.” "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.” "Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.” "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” "Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body and his heart - what is life worth to him?”
-Vince Lombardi
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.” “Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.”
-Norman Vincent Peale
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” “Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.” “Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence-- is the key to unlocking our potential.”. “We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
-Winston Churchill

HABITS

Habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- John Dryden

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- Horace Mann

First we form habits, then they form us.
- Dr. Rob Gilbert

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- Benjamin Franklin

PLANNING
Before you can plan your future, you must understand your past. If you are human, you have made mistakes. Maybe you wish you could go back and do things over. It's easy to call perfect Sunday football plays on Monday morning. But real life is not like that. You could only plan, and act, based on what you knew at the time. And what you think was a failure might actually have been a blessing in disguise, because that successful launch you missed out on might have been only temporary anyway, and ended up in a crash landing. You cannot forget the past. But you can make the present so much better that you hardly care about the past. Besides, that was a different game. You were a different person. From now on plan every day to be a special day for you. You deserve it. Plan time to do little things you enjoy. Otherwise you won’t be in a mood to tackle big things. Most people fail to reach their goals because they waste time worrying and waiting for some special inspiration to motivate them for one mighty blastoff they imagine is the only way they can win, someday. They plan to take BIG action.....tomorrow. But the day will never come when there is enough time to accomplish anything really big, while every day that goes by offers many opportunities to accomplish LITTLE parts of a big goal. Here is the secret to success: plan the big things not as one big effort, but as a hundred little efforts. Remember the metamorphosis of a beautiful butterfly. So many little changes, not one big one. Never worry that your daily efforts don’t seem big enough or impressive enough to ever succeed. That’s only true if you stop. Just keep doing a little EVERY DAY to get closer to your goals. That’s the only plan you need.