Whilst looking for something this morning, I came across the following quotes that somebody else has related all to smoking.
Enjoy reading through them as some of them are very thought provoking.
1) The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door
Erki Nool, Olympic winner
Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on
2) The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Mark Twain
There will never be a “perfect” time to quit smoking. A time when you don’t have any distractions or stress… If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don’t waste another year!
3) The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going
Napoleon Hill
Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you
4) Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose
John Kehoe
It’s all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction
5) Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
6) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort
7) It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.
8 ) People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpfulJ
9) Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations… and it can defeat that nicotine
10) People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
When we start focusing on things we can do and don’t think so much about the things we can’t do, things really start to happen
11) Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
12) What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Anthony Robbins
You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head
13) Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
14) There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking…
15) They can because they think they can.
Virgil
16) There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work.
Jeune.E. McIntyre
Which ones do you think are happier?
17) Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Don’t let tobacco companies make the choices for you… they care about their own well-being, not yours
18) You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
19) If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow
Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit
20) Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
21) At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee Jampolsky
How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?
22) It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Unknown
Many people all over the world have quit smoking. You can too.
23) Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Earl of Chesterfield
There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today
24) Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
25) You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action
26) Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.
Deepak Chopra
The choices you make today design your future
27) Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free
28) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The process of quitting smoking doesn’t end with the last cigarette. It’s not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
29) You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
Mike Murdock
Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither
30) He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao-Tzu
31) No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
Buddha
32) All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
And more importantly – what we have chosen to do
33) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
It’s all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
34) The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.
Jim Rohn
35) Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don’t have to build your strengths – that you already possess… It is your weakness that needs the exercise
36) Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy
Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one
37) You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing
38) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them… but you can not fool yourself
39) The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Lets take full advantage of this discovery
40) What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
Buddha
It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today’s choices
41) You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi
42) We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43) And all may do what has by man been done.
Edward Young
Men before you have quit smoking – you can too!
44) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life… even nicotine cravings
45) Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
Changing a habit is hard work. But it’s harder to find work that would be more fulfilling
46) If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb
If easier solutions did not get you through, its time to put more effort in your attempts
47) Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
48) If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
John B. Gough
49) Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
50) Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through
51) Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice makes perfect – the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
52) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it
53) Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
You have no one to blame and no one to take your place in this task
54) The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
55) The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
56) Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
Easy come, easy go… “Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing” schemes don’t work, they are just not logical
57) Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.
58) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
59) A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.
Josh S. Hinds
Make today count, so that you can look at it tomorrow and feel proud
60) It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
Things don’t just happen, people make them happen
61) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Take a moment to imagine all the benefits that come with your new found freedom from nicotine
Daily Chat Monday 30th September
