Simple Motivation for the Holidays and New Year

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Stacey Sprain - As an NAMP® staff writer, Ms. Stacey Sprain is currently a NAMP® member in good standing, and is a NAMP® Certified Ambassador Loan Processor (NAMP®-CALP). With over 15+ years of mortgage banking experience, Stacey is also a Quality Control Manager for a major mortgage lending institution. If you would like to become a volunteer writer for us, please email us at: blog@mortgageprocessor.org.

This week, as we approach the end of yet another crazy year in our industry, I thought I’d mix things up a bit and provide some lighter reading but reading that nonetheless, might just provide you the motivation you need to turn a negative attitude and stressful time of year into a positive and joyful experience that will motivate you to prepare for a wonderful new year!

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Following are some of my favorite and inspiring motivational quotes. In times of conflict and stress, I sometimes find that simply reading the quotes of other successful people is all it takes to move my mind in a positive direction with great enthusiasm and vision of the future. Happy holidays to you all and best wishes for 2012! May the New Year bring you all you desire!

• “Success is getting what you want. Happiness wants what you get.” –Dale Carnegie

• “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” –Bill Cosby

• “I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. “ –George Burns

• “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley

• “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” -Benjamin Franklin

• “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.” -Unknown

• “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn

• “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” -Jon Bon Jovi

• “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” -Nido Qubein

• “We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” -Ronald Reagan

• “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible!” –Unknown

• “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
-Jim Rohn

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• “Great hopes make great men.” -Thomas Fuller

• “Action is the foundational key to all success.” -Pablo Picasso

• “Failure is success if we learn from it.” -Malcolm Forbes

• “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt

• “Take risks. If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” –Unknown

• "To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." - Peter McWilliams

• “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” –Albert Einstein

• “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

• "The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many."
-John Naisbitt

• “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” –Walt Disney

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• “What matters in life is not what you're busy doing or having, but what you're busy BEING.” -Unknown

• “The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.” –Hugh Hefner

• “Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.” –Bob Brown

• “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” - Gautama Buddha

• "The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life." -Charles M. Schwab

• “Just remember ... if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.” -Trevor Myers

• “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett

• “Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.” -Martin H. Fischer

• “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” -Unknown

• “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” –Vince Lombardi

• “I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” –Bill Cosby

• "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt

• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” –Abraham Lincoln

• “I do it because I can; I can because I want to; I want to because you said I couldn't.” -Unknown

• "The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth." –Chinese Proverb

• "The only way around is through." –Robert Frost

• “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
-Unknown

• “In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.” –Bill Clinton

• “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

• “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -Henry Ford

• "To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." -Tony Dorsett

• “The biggest risk you will ever take is not taking one at all.” –Unknown

• “Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.” -Takafumi Hori

• “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• “Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” –Napoleon Hill

• “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.” -Henry Ford

• “Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless.” -Aldous Huxley

• “The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.” -William Strong

• “Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.” -Michael Jordan

• "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." -Dwight D.

• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi

• “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -Jim Stovall

• “Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost

• “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” -John F. Kennedy

• “Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.” -Vince Lombardi

• “Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.” -Unknown

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