Regrets are in the Past

Humans have a tendency to regret the past. But not many understand that the decisions one took was based on the wisdom and knowledge at the point in time. Today, you're definitely wiser and knowledgeable and its clear to you that you could done things better.

So, don't waste your time regretting because that's the best you could do at that time.

The point is ...did you learn somethng from the experience.

Don't Compete, Don't Regret

The tendency to compete breeds regret sometimes. You always want to do better than before. But try it and you're sucked. You want to do better even tomorrow. Life never ends its challenges. Its best to live life in the present without competing and certainly without regrets.

If Things Go Wrong, They Will
Regrets seep in when things are not going good in your current life. Think about how you could resolve your problems and find a way to be content and happy. Think about the past could ruin the present too.

Think about it.

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
Rita Mero

Never regret something that made you smile.
Anonymous

The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Anonymous

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Gayson

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Lucille Ball

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Old English Saying

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe

Live in the Present
The beauty of life is about living in the present, moment to moment. When you feel the snow, see the rainbow, touch the chill waters, feel the warm hug or embrace a moment of silence in your life....that's living in the moment.

You're experiencing bliss because there's no thought in your head. No memory. No past.

Try it. Live in the present and the experience will change your life.

Embrace the Reality
If you have the guts to face the truth, you won't have any regrets in life. It's when you want to duck, find cover from your failures, shovel up all the excuses to say that you didn't fail.

Then life will be full of regrets.

Face the truth, acept failures and you will find the strength to tide over all failures.

Regrets keep you away from enjoying the pleasures of life. Go ahead and enjoy life on your own terms and with no regrets.

If you give up you don’t succeed in anything. Behind success is a lot of failure, criticism, pain and intense determination. Are you ready to follow your passion.

Giving up is the easiest thing to do, and that’s not the reason why you start on a journey. Persist, be obsessed. FAIL. FAIL. TRY. FAIL. TRY. Succeed.

Read the story of these celebrities who were seized by an idea and were determined to succeed despite repeated failures. At times, they were the only ones in the world to think the idea would succeed.

Success is also about long periods of loneliness.

When Jack Canfield Needed Soup?
Jack Canfield’s Chicken Soup for the Soul was rejected by 144 publishers. But each time, he and his co-authors went back to the drawing room to improve the quality of the book. Eventually, the book sold 8 million copies and was translated into thirty two languages. Says he, “Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

Henry Ford’s Bumpy Ride
Henry Ford, the legendary founder of Ford Motor Company, went bankrupt 4 times before he learnt to launch a successful car. His first company Detroit Automobile Co., had to be shut down in the face of customer complaints of high prices and poor quality (Ouch!).

His second venture Henry Ford Co also ran into trouble. But men of steel have a way of bouncing back and Ford finally made it when investors backed Ford Motor Company, which rolled out an automobile in 1896.

The rest is history.

Edison’s 10000 Failures
Thomas Alva Edison was a “slow learner” at school and never went to a college. Although not totally deaf, he once wrote, "I have not heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old." And he turned his disadvantage into something positive and said it helped him concentrate since the noise was cut out.

Often he was trying some experiment or the other in the basement. Infact, he accidentally set a train on fire while experimenting inside a running train and was boxed on his ears. Hard of hearing but not short on trying, Edison failed 9999 times before successfully illuminating this world with an electric bulb. When he was posed a question about his failures, he shot back, “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” "He had 1,093 United States patents to his name, the highest ever in history.

Jordan Declared Unfit to Play Basketball
Michael Jordan whose name is synonymous with basketball was once deemed unfit for basketball while at school. He’s said to have locked himself up in a room and cried. But he was not going to give upo, in fact he became more determined to succeed. "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Einstein’s Relative Failures
Albert Einstein, the father of modern science, had a slow start to his life not speaking till four, unable to read until seven and expelled from school because his teachers said he was "mentally slow, unsociable and adrip forever in foolish dreams."

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 and has to his credit published 350 scientific papers.

So never give up. Keep at it and you'll succeed. Did you like this article?

If you keep pursuing your dream and not give up, you will ultimately find your destination. Inspiration often comes when you seek it, more often from the deepest of your heart.

Dream big and dream daily, be seized by the passion of the moment and you'll surely reach the shores of success.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Vince Lombardi

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Al Neuharth

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

A great many people seem to end up over the hill without ever having actually climbed it!
Anonymous

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
Greg Anderson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

If you believe your best days are ahead of you, they are.
Jurine Lewis

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you’d eventually get the same results they do.
Brian Tracy

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

Just remember that once you're over he hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson

My goal in life is to be half the person my dog thinks I am.
Anonymous

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must take it.
Charles Buxton

It's always to soon to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

The secret of like is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life.
Henry Moore

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can drea it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Aspire to be a hero than just act like one.
Baltasar Gracian

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.
Oprah Winfrey

Most folks are as happy as they make up mind to be.
Abraham Lincoln

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Often the difference between happiness and despair is our thinking. The way we see things and our ability to challenge life's situations and dare to overcome them is what separates ordinary folks from achievers. The never give up spirit coupled with an urge to do brings us success and happiness.

Just see things positively and do things with confidence and you'll see change. Plenty of change. Almost magical results await you.

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr Wayne Dyer

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assis

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Anonymous

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant

Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Schwartz

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you.
Brain Tracy

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us.
Helen Keller

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown

Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.
Catherine Pulsifer

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
Denis Waitley

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Anonymous

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
Denis Waitley

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Anonymous

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Short Motivational Quotes - 3

When one is truly ready for a thing it puts in its appearance.
Napoleon Hill

You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you
Jim Rohn

You can do it if you believe you can
Napoleon Hill

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

You must learn from the mistake of others. You can’t possible live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson

Without self-awareness we are like babes in the cradles.
Virginia Wolf

If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Whatever you think about continuously emerges in your reality.
Brian Tracy

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Napoleon Hill

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands but in the heart itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A goal that is not written down is merely a wish.
Les Brown, Live your dreams

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
Jim Rohn

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Issac Newton

If you cannot make a change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou

You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.
Jim Rohn

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.
Les Brown

It s time to start living the life you have imagined.
Henry James

Have a positive attitude and spread it around never let yourself be a victim and for goodness sake have fun.
Jack Welch

You are the same today as you’ll be in next five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet.
Charlie Jones

Know Thyself
- Socrates

Think Big

Think Positive

Face Truth

Live Happily

Dream Big

Why Not?

Trust People

Set Goals

Try Again

Do Impossible

Muster Courage

Play Fair

Stay Ahead

Rock On

Don’t Lie

Be Forgiving

Never Complain

Do Good

A young man from the village went to meet a Buddhist monk whose fame had spread far and wide.

“Master I want to become your disciple,” said the man.

“But why?” asked the monk.

“Because I want to find God,” said he.

After a minute, the monk took him out of the water. The man was gasping for breath.

“What did you want most when you was under water?” asked the monk.

“Air,” replied the frightened man.

“Good. Now go away and come back to me when you want God as much as you wanted air when you were under water,” replied the Buddhist monk.

Notes: The search for truth is not a mere mortal exercise. The disciple has to be ready for the exploration. And the master will know when he sees one. The wanting for truth must come from deep within.

Rajasekar Raju KS is an avid blogger who writes on Self Improvement. You can read more of his Short Motivational Stories here.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Former American President

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach, author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingstin Seagul

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Anonymous

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan, champion basketball player

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
Anonymous

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie, author of Effective Public Speaking and many other books

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Anonymous

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot, American Business Tycoon

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Anonymous

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
Anonymous

A little fish in a big pond can get to be a big fish in that pond, but a big fish in a little pond cannot get any better off.
Anonymous

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Col Harland Sanders

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
André A. Jackson

You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something.
TV show host Family Matters

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
Anonymous

You can motivate by fear and reward, but these are temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.
Anonymous
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison, American Scientist with over 7000 patents

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them
Maya Angelou

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Zig Ziglar

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

if you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox

The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Zig Ziglar

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'
Forrest Gump

I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life.
Maya Angelou

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. I sustain myself with the love of family

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.