50 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change the Way You Freelance
In freelancing, life can get tough and sometimes, we just need a little something to keep us going. As such, we’re giving freelancers that little nudge with this collection of inspirational quotes to keep them motivated… and a little dash of inspiration may be all that you need to keep your optimism up, as you strive to achieve your goals. We’ve come up with scenarios you may see yourself in, together with a list of quotes to put a smile on your face.
p.s. we don’t want to sound like your mom. Think of us as your friend who cheers you up so you can be at your best
Daily Dose of Inspiration: What to Read…
1. If You’re Feeling Lazy
“Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.” – Tim Blixseth
“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” – Bono
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You’ve got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.” – Clive Davis
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.” – Philip Green
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“Action will destroy your procrastination.” – Og Mandino
2. If You’re Stuck in a Rut ( creative rut, that is )
“There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on.” – Michael Eisner
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” – Anthony Robbins
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page
“A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.” – Brian Tracy
“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm.. in the real world all rests on perseverance.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
“When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” – Sigmund Freud
“Well, when you’re trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.” – Michael Eisner
“Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.” – Dee Hock
3. If You Feel Like Quitting
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer
“I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.” – Alan Bond
“Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.” – John H. Johnson
“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” – BC Forbes
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” – Brian Tracy
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.” – Robert Half
4. If You Need to Find Your Strength and Passion
“They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
“…by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.” – Tony Buzan
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey
“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” – Stephen Covey
“Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it’s hopeless.” – Aldous Huxley
“Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” – George Lucas
“I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.” – Pierre Omidyar
“If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.” – Dr Phil
“What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it.” – Lee Iacocca
5. If You’re Feeling Stressed
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” – Wayne Dyer
“We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” – Wayne Dyer
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” – Philip Green
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
“To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” – Walter Chrysler
“Positive things happen to positive people.” – Sarah Beeny
“Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.” – H.W. Byles
As J.K. Rowling said, “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve…” so when the sea of freelancing gets rough, take a pause and find your inspiration.
What inspires you today?
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