Here are a collection of some of Michael's favorite positive and inspirational quotes. A few of them he has written himself, which have been published on an inspirational/motivational website.
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Failure is the bridge to success - Michael Woodcroft
L.I.F.E - Living - Inspired/Inspirit - Fully - Everyday
Me - Michael Woodcroft
By looking in the past in the present, we shape our future
Michael Woodcroft
If you look back while you're going forward, you'll trip up sometime
Michael Woodcroft
Our greatest teacher really is ourselves. Only we teach ourself. Only we are the ones who make the decision to accept something and learn. No one else. We can listen to others, but in the end it is our choice to learn.
Michael Woodcroft
How can you appreciate the beauty of your own footprints in the sands of time, by walking in someone else's? Michael Woodcroft
The bigger the obstacle in my way, the bigger and more stable a stepping stone I have to reach my goals.
Michael Woodcroft
We all came here, into this life, with our own music to play; each of us our own set of notes. Let's all play together nicely so that the world makes sweet music along the manuscript of life.
Michael Woodcroft
Your success is not defined against another, nor is it defined by another idea of success, but by what YOU aspire to be, by what YOU achieve and by getting to where YOU want to be. Do not measure yourself against another. Focus on what it is that YOU alone want to do, where YOU want to go, and what YOU want from life. For if you don't follow your own heart, dreams and goals, you'll always feel as though you fall short. The only person that YOU should aspire to be better than is yourself. That is what drives you as an individual to achieve what you define as success.
Michael Woodcroft
Belief is more important than ability. Without belief we can do little. With the belief that you can do something, the ability will come and you'll be laughing. Believe people. Anything truly is possible when we remove the proverbial limits from our mind.
Michael Woodcroft
The key to getting where you want is getting out of the way of yourself.
Michael Woodcroft
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace
Sri Chinmoy Ghose
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
Within everyone there is light and shadow,good and evil,love and hate.In order to be truthful,you must embrace your total being.A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities,strenghts and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.
If you have the ability to imagine it,or even to think about it , this Universe has the ability and the resources to deliver it fully unto you.
The energy that you have for creating what you want...is in your thoughts.
The river of life sometimes takes a winding course toward your goal.It may seem to going in a different direction entirely,yet in the long run it is a more harmonious way to get there than through struggling.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discourag
ed. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
Richard Nixon
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
William Arthur Ward
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Would you like me to give you a formula for...success?
It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure...
You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success.
But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it.
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.
Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side."
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-results. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view."
Grace Spear
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Pantajali, 300 B.C.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Life must be lived as play. (In my case a movie :D)
Plato
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
When a man disciplines his diet and diversions, his physical actions, his sleeping and waking, discipline destroys his sorrow.The Bhagavad Gita Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
T. Alan Armstrong
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More will be added over time.
L.I.F.E - Living - Inspired/Inspirit - Fully - Everyday
Me - Michael Woodcroft
By looking in the past in the present, we shape our future
Michael Woodcroft
If you look back while you're going forward, you'll trip up sometime
Michael Woodcroft
Our greatest teacher really is ourselves. Only we teach ourself. Only we are the ones who make the decision to accept something and learn. No one else. We can listen to others, but in the end it is our choice to learn.
Michael Woodcroft
How can you appreciate the beauty of your own footprints in the sands of time, by walking in someone else's? Michael Woodcroft
The bigger the obstacle in my way, the bigger and more stable a stepping stone I have to reach my goals.
Michael Woodcroft
We all came here, into this life, with our own music to play; each of us our own set of notes. Let's all play together nicely so that the world makes sweet music along the manuscript of life.
Michael Woodcroft
Your success is not defined against another, nor is it defined by another idea of success, but by what YOU aspire to be, by what YOU achieve and by getting to where YOU want to be. Do not measure yourself against another. Focus on what it is that YOU alone want to do, where YOU want to go, and what YOU want from life. For if you don't follow your own heart, dreams and goals, you'll always feel as though you fall short. The only person that YOU should aspire to be better than is yourself. That is what drives you as an individual to achieve what you define as success.
Michael Woodcroft
Belief is more important than ability. Without belief we can do little. With the belief that you can do something, the ability will come and you'll be laughing. Believe people. Anything truly is possible when we remove the proverbial limits from our mind.
Michael Woodcroft
The key to getting where you want is getting out of the way of yourself.
Michael Woodcroft
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace
Sri Chinmoy Ghose
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
Within everyone there is light and shadow,good and evil,love and hate.In order to be truthful,you must embrace your total being.A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities,strenghts and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.
If you have the ability to imagine it,or even to think about it , this Universe has the ability and the resources to deliver it fully unto you.
The energy that you have for creating what you want...is in your thoughts.
The river of life sometimes takes a winding course toward your goal.It may seem to going in a different direction entirely,yet in the long run it is a more harmonious way to get there than through struggling.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discourag
ed. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
Richard Nixon
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
William Arthur Ward
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Would you like me to give you a formula for...success?
It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure...
You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success.
But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it.
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.
Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side."
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-results. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view."
Grace Spear
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Pantajali, 300 B.C.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Life must be lived as play. (In my case a movie :D)
Plato
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
When a man disciplines his diet and diversions, his physical actions, his sleeping and waking, discipline destroys his sorrow.The Bhagavad Gita Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
T. Alan Armstrong
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More will be added over time.