 27 inspiring quotes and thoughts of the day. 27 of them, are you ready? This is gonna be a motivational, inspirational video and podcast episode. If you're watching on YouTube, or if you're watching on my podcast, or listening on my podcast, The James Swannick Show. Here we go. The book is called A Great Thought a Day. 365 quotes to inspire you all year long. And I wake up and I look at this every single morning and I look at one of them. But we're gonna do 27 of them now. Did I say 27 or are you gonna do 27? All right, here we go. I know the price of success, dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. That was Frank Lloyd Wright. All right, that was a good one. Here's a Winston Churchill quote. Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. Nice one. So let's go with Diane Sawyer, the famous TV host. Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it to. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. Pretty cool. Let's keep going. I'm just gonna flick through and just choose randomly. Here we go. Truth never damages a cause that is just. That's Mahatma Gandhi. Diana Ross, here we go. I can be a better me than anyone can. Nice work, Diana Ross. Let's flick through again. Here we go. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. That's a Confucius saying. All right, how many are we up to? We're up to six, okay. Let's pick another one here. If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. That is true, isn't it? All right, let's have another little one. Another Winston Churchill one. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. It's true, like if you're gonna have a choice of being an optimist or a pessimist, you might as well be an optimist, right? All right, let's keep going here. Charles Schwab, the man who has done his best has done everything. Good reminder there for us to do our best at everything, right? Let's have another look here. Let's do Mother Teresa. Give, but give until it hurts. Wow, that's good, Mother Teresa. Without forgiveness, there is no future, says Desmond Tutu. That's true, we gotta forgive. Otherwise we get stuck. Barbara Bush, cherish your human connections, your relationships with friends and family. Good reminder there, right? Friends and family, cherish those relationships and those connections that you make. It's not all about making money. It's not all about go, go, go, go, go, friends and family. Nelson Mandela says, it always seems impossible until it's done. Man, you know, you ever start a project and you're like, man, I can't get this started or it just seems too hard. Just take a little step. If you wanna learn how to beat procrastination, in fact, I'll put a little annotation in my YouTube video and I've got a formula for beating procrastination so you actually start to get things done and you can click in the link below in the about section of the YouTube video as well. Let's have a look here. Mark Twain, we can achieve what we can conceive and believe. Nice one. Henry Ford, coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Nice, all right. A lot of people get all excited at the beginning like, yeah, we're starting. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be fantastic. And that's easy, right? It's easy to start with people but then it's harder to stay with people in terms of a business relationship or even if it's a romantic relationship and then harder again to just continue staying with people or in any relationship. So, all right, let's have another look at this. T.S. Eliot says every moment is a fresh beginning which means if you're crappy right now, situation sucks or whatever. Bang, click your fingers. Wow, every moment is a fresh beginning. How many is that? How many are we up to? 16, how many did we say we're gonna do? 27, all right. Michael Jordan says talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence win championships. That's Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time. Some say, I'll give you the greatest athlete of all time. The Ralph Waldo Emerson says the only way to have a friend is to be one. Cool, I like that. I'm reviewing the book A Great Thought a Day. It's a notepad, 365 quotes to inspire you all year long. I read one of these every single day. Puts me in a good mood. Let's have a look here. This is Amelia Earhart. The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. It's true, how many times do we just like overthink things? Like, oh, should I do it, should I not do it? That's the hardest part. Just bang, get to the point, act and then be tenacious. Charles Darwin. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change. That's true. So you don't, the strongest and the fittest doesn't necessarily win, but if you can adapt to change, then you will win out. The world is changing very, very quickly. So if you can adapt very quickly, you'll do okay. You're gonna do all right. Oprah Winfrey, passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Yeah, so if you're not doing something that excites you, then what's the point of doing it? Because you're gonna really do well if you're passionate and excited about it. Albert Einstein. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Robert Frost says, in three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. Wise words there. So if you're struggling, something bad happens. It goes on. Life goes on. Just carrying on. Eleanor Roosevelt says, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. It's true. Had a crappy day. Had a bad day. Go to bed. Wake up the next morning. It's a brand new day. Start again. For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. Author unknown. That's a good one. So you have a choice to be angry or a choice to be happy. It's not to say that you won't feel anger in certain situations, but you then have a choice on whether you're gonna just let the anger take over you or whether you're gonna get out of it pretty quick. Two more to go, I think. Malcolm Forbes says, the art of conversation lies in listening. Yes. If you take a genuine interest in other people, they will like you. It's so true. And you'll have great conversation. And then final one, let's just flip through here, stop wherever it stops, bang. Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than your promise. Author unknown. There you go. That's a good one to finish with. There it is right there. This is the book, A Great Thought a Day, Notepad 365 Quotes to Inspire You All Year Long. I hope you liked that. Do subscribe to the channel. If you're watching on YouTube, I do these all the time. And thank you for listening if you're on the James Swannick Show podcast.