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1 " I once heard this saying that God keeps breaking your heart until it opens. And ain't that the truth. Think about it. Every struggle, every challenge, every adversity brings you closer to your heart, to your true self, to who you really are. Sometimes you got to be broken down to the point where you feel powerless to discover your ultimate and true power. "
― Jon Gordon
2 " Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract. "
― Jon Gordon , The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
3 " You haven't failed until you stop trying. "
4 " Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings. "
5 " Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera. "
6 " Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out."only believe in yourself. "
7 " One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else. "
― Jon Gordon , The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
8 " When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success. "
― Jon Gordon , The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All
9 " Positive energy and positive people create positive results. There is certainly a lot of negativity in the world and choosing positive energy helps us deal with the negative people and negative situations that can knock us off course. "
10 " Often the difference between success and failure is belief. "
― Jon Gordon , You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
11 " As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do. "
12 " Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently. "
13 " Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride. "
14 " Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state. "
15 " I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth "
16 " Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed. "
17 " They asked a bunch of ninety-five-year-olds, I don’t know where they found them all, Florida I guess, but anyway they asked them if they could do it all over again and live their life again what would they do differently. The three things that almost all of them said were: (1) They would reflect more. Enjoy more moments. More sunrises and sunsets. More moments of joy. (2) They would take more risks and chances. Life is too short not to go for it. (3) They would have left a legacy. Something that would live on after they die. "
18 " To run a successful organization,” I say, “you must learn to manage people’s energy, including your own. "
19 " Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you. "
20 " The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it. "
