What is inspiration? It is the desire to do what you have to do to reach your goal. You start with visualizing the your happiest and most fulfilled self, and then decide what you have to achieve to realize that vision. According to that you fix your goal. The next step is planning a course of action to reach your goal. This plan is basically a set of smaller goals to be achieved over a certain period of time for your ultimate goal to be realized.
Up to this point it's comparatively easy. Now comes the doing part, and that is where inspiration and motivation comes into play. Initially, i.e. just after you've fixed your goal and made your plans, you'll have lots of it. But if you are the average Joe, you'll work quite diligently at it for the first week, may be at best the second too, but then the warm-fuzzy feeling will start to drain.
Contrary to common perceptions, inspiration is not that warm-fuzzy feeling that keeps you excited for the first few days of your journey. It's the utter craving in your heart for your goal, coupled with a strong belief in yourself and in what you're doing, that keeps you at it for years and decades (i.e. as long as it takes for you to reach your goal) together. Remember, no one ever became great by giving up, and none of them had it easy. Every success story is a story of perseverance, of not giving in, of stubborn continuation in one's journey in the face of adversity and of the strongest of beliefs in one's dreams. Here is a glimpse of some of those stories.
Inspiration and motivation quotes:
" Mind is everything,muscle-pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi - The greatest runner of all time
" I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Thomas A. Edison
" If you have to climb a high hill then waiting will not make it small. Just go ahead."
Author Unknown
" What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."
Tony Robbins
" I'm a great believer in luck. And I find the harder I work the more of it I have."
Author Unknown
" One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Henry Ford
"I don't have a luck line on my hand. There are lines that define my work and there will be lines that my work will define."
Written in 2008 by Amal Gupta --- India
" Always hope for the best, which would become the bridge between what you are and what you aim to become. It may not happen soon but you will be surprised how it can change the course of universe."
Copyright 2007 Chaitanya Goteti
" To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen."
Author Unknown
" A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion."
Evander Holyfield
" Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk --- and to act."
Maxwell Maltz
" You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
Anthony Robbins
" The only way to truly move forward is to never look back."
Written in 2008 by Christopher Ammirati --- New Jersey
" It must be borne in the mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal; the tragedy is in not having a goal to reach. Not a calamity to die without dreams not fulfilled but a calamity not to dream. Not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal; it is a disaster not to have an ideal to capture. Not a disgrace not to reach the stars but a disgrace to have no stars to reach. Not failure but low aim is sin."
Benjamin Ewise
I chose this quote because I've learnt that it is better to dare to try than not to attempt at all.
" You're not pushing hard enough, if everything in your world is not pushing back."
Written in 2008 by Shawn Allen --- Missouri
" I'll always be number 1 to myself."
Moses Malone
" The last effort is always the one that matters. So in whatever you do, never give in until it's over as you'll never know - you may just turn the whole thing around."
Written in 2008 by Jasper T. --- Australia
" To be the best you have to beat the best. Learn from the mistakes other people make to stay ahead and never let thoughts of your background affect how you perform."
Romza
It helps to keep me focussed and to never give up on my dreams.
" Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day."
Ching Ning Chu
" People say they love that I think outside the box. Really, I say, I didn't even know there was a box."
Mathew Moran
" Whenever you fail, don't ever think that you failed because you are not worthy. If you have come this far, then there must be something in you that brought you this far; a fire that pushed you on, so put some more gas on the fire and push on. Get up, dust yourself off and come right back, not only with a vengeance but also with a plan to win."
A Captain in the Indian Army
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