7 Motivational Quotes to Brighten Your Day

Words are free for us to make, string together, and dispense with, but there are times in life when only the right words can make us feel better. We know what we want to hear or say but the right words simply don't come to mind. It is in these times that motivational quotes prove their worth. Motivational quotes may summarize everything we feel, expect, and believe in. We can use them to be inspired and feel better.

To be more motivated today, tomorrow, and for the days ahead try these quotes below:


"Focus on remedies, not faults" - Jack Nicklaus.

Mistakes are so difficult to forget while the good things in life have an ephemeral existence in our minds. But why should we let our minds dwell on mistakes? What good can it do? The only time we should think about our faults is for the purpose of learning from them. Upon achieving that, we should focus next on remedies and move on.

"Anger and haste hinder good counsel" - English proverb.

Motivational quotes shouldn't be exclusively used for creating happy thoughts and feelings. They should also be used to get rid of negative and unhappy ones which will allow for something nicer, warmer, and brighter. Anger is one such emotion and you can use the above quote to remind yourself how futile and destructive anger can be.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

There are many ways to apply this quote to our lives. If you have a goal, mere wanting is inadequate. You must have a burning desire for it. For that matter also, enthusiasm isn't something to be embarrassed about. A world-weary outlook on life may be considered fashionable by some, but such affectations won't make you any happier. Be glad you have something to be excited about for these are the things that make life worthwhile.

"Everyman is the architect of his own fortune" - Sallus.

Do not blame God or anyone else for your misfortune. It is useless to do so. You need to strive above all things because it is your life and everything that happens to you is within your power. True enough, some things can't be achieved overnight but, if you work hard enough and believe in yourself enough, you will get what you want no matter what obstacles you are facing.


"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" - Audre Lorde.

Don't waste time dwelling on your fears and insecurities. Rather, concentrate on discovering your strengths and finding out the best way to put them to use in order to achieve your goals. When you do that, you will become too busy to ever remember to be afraid.

"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit" - Norman Vincent Peale.

Yes, hope is something everyone knows and understands but it's not something everyone can do and do repeatedly. Hope takes practice. Moreover, It requires constant practice from you simply because it is one of the great paths to happiness.


"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh.

Explaining this quote is easier done by using another quote: "Courage is not defined by the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear" - Ambrose Redmoon.

Till next time.

How to stop being bored.

It's very easy to stop being bored. Get busy!

Being bored really means you are just lacking motivation. OK, so how do we kill off lack of motivation so that boredom becomes a thing of the past?

Best way I know is to make a project of getting together a list of goals. The goals have to be significantly important to YOU - no one else. They really have to mean a lot to you personally (emotionally). This way it is easy to start getting really involved - that's right - motivated.

Think of what's lacking in your life. I'm not talking about the motivation here, OK! Think hard.

Is it money?
Is it your health?
Is it love?
Perhaps a holiday?
Relaxation?
Maybe a combination of the above?

Grab a pen and a sheet of paper and make a heading. The heading is what you have identified as lacking in your life. Now draw two lines down the sheet of paper so that you end up with three equal columns. In the left column write, in very brief point form, all the reasons you can that make you feel you are lacking the particular thing you have identified as your heading to this page.

Say for example you have identified "Money" as what is lacking in your life. That is your heading at the top of your page. You left side may look like this:

No money in Bank.

Can't afford to go out.

Not much food in the pantry.

My car needs fixing.

Now in the middle column write, again in very brief point form, the opposite of every point in the left column. In our example it should look like this:

Lots of money in the Bank.

I can easily afford to go out.

My pantry is full of food.

I've just had my car fixed.

Notice that these are all "belief statements". They could also be called positive affirmations. They are also a list of goals.

In the right column list how you are going to get yourself from the stated situation in the left column to the goal situation in the middle column. It may look like this:

Find a new better paying job.

Make a budget and stick to it.

Stop spending on cigarettes and buy food instead.

Book car in for service (budget for the estimated cost).

Now get busy working through your new action list.

By picturing in your mind (visualising) the completed goals in the center column you will obtain the motivation to go through with the actions you have listed in the right hand column. The positive results will speak for themselves.

You are now far too busy to be bored.