Keep going

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

We all want the best outcome, the harvest, the crop, the money, the championship, the finished essay, the good grades, the most sales, the best of everything, but are you willing to put the effort in every day & night until you see the result?

It’s easy to look around ourselves and compare our lives to someone else’s, & to be discouraged or encouraged.

I’ve heard to not compare your chapter 1 to someone’s chapter 20, yet we are human and we do that.

We all start at chapter 1 – no matter what it is we are working on. We all start at the beginning.

Yoda or someone said “You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”

Whenever you begin anything, you will almost never be good at it in the beginning. You will fail. It’ll be difficult. You may even be laughed at & feel the humility of attempting something & not being great at it.

It’s okay.

No one is great at the beginning. It takes time.

If you want the results, you have to keep going.

You try again and again, and again and again, and you get better, slowly.

It won’t be easy, but nothing is, and as you try again and again – you will be planting the seeds for your success.

1) 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.
—George Herbert

2) When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
—Zig Ziglar

3) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

4) Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
—C.S. Lewis

5) Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
—Og Mandino

6) Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
—Dale Carnegie

7) When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
— Elon Musk

8) The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
—Confucius

9) The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
—Rob Siltanen

10) Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; What would it look like?
—Brian Tracy

11) Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
—Steve Jobs

12) We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
— Henry Link

13) Energy and persistence conquer all things.
—Benjamin Franklin

14) For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
—Jack Canfield

15) Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
—Bradley Whitford

16) Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

17) A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
—Nelson Mandela

The Seeds You Plant

17 Motivational Quotes to Keep You Going