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File: Marketing Binder > Motivation Motivational Quotes to Develop Your Practice

We all can sometimes lose our way. We set a goal, we have a dream, we work for some purpose. Yet, along our path we are hit with oppositions and distractions, and we can easily become confused and sidetracked.

These quotes are to help you stay on track, to help keep you on your way to achieving your goals.

They have been compiled over a four year period, and were specifically selected to help doctors deal with situations that we knew they were up against. These particular quotes were picked to help doctors, and often their staffs, re-invigorate their purposes, spark their ambitions and compassions, and to help give them greater perspective on what actions they should take next towards success.

We hope they will do the same for you.

Directions: Read one per day. Select it, read it, think about how it applies to the office and your life. Read it at a daily staff meeting in the morning, or at a weekly meeting. Select your daily quote in order, or review them all until one seems "jump" out at you and seems to apply a bit more than the others.

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes “If you are not constantly improving your services for your patients’ benefit, your patients may soon be seeing another doctor who is.” ~ Ed Petty

ON COMMUNICATING CHIROPRACTIC: “Potentially every sick person is demanding Chiropractic, calling for it, needing it, crying for it, actually shouting for it, but doesn’t know it. Why isn’t he or she GETTING IT? Because HE doesn’t know that it’s CHIROPRACTIC he needs. We haven’t told HIM. We haven’t sold HIM Chiropractic. The sick world has sold itself to US but WE haven’t sold OURSELVES to them.” ~ BJ Palmer – 1920

THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF MY AGE IS THAT MEN CAN CHANGE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES BY CHANGING THE ATTITUDES OF THEIR MIND.” ~ William James, US Philosopher, 1842-1910

“This is the true joy in life – that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live.” ~ George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950 Dramatist and playwright

On Teamwork and Responsibility… This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. ~ Anonymous “The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” ~ John Ruskin

“Your talent is God's gift to you.

“A good system shortens the road to the goal.” ~ Orison Swett Marden

“If you don’t sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.” ~ Irish Proverb

“I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.” ~ The Dalai Lama

“No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish, Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.” ~ Harriet Du Autermont

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

Petty, Michel & Associates © 1999 075ea4db84d7093767837cdd5dac8361.doc – Revised 4/20/99 Page 3 of 10 File: Marketing Binder > Motivation “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” ~ Dale E. Turner

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” ~ Malcolm Forbes

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.” ~ Sally Koch

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.” ~ Earl Nightingale

On the Giving of Care... “It’s not how much we give But how much love we put into giving.” ~ Mother Teresa

Petty, Michel & Associates © 1999 075ea4db84d7093767837cdd5dac8361.doc – Revised 4/20/99 Page 4 of 10 File: Marketing Binder > Motivation “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement’s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Knowing what to do isn’t enough if you haven’t developed the self-discipline to do it.” ~ Harvey Mackay

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” ~ Helen Keller

“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be” ~ Excerpted from the book, A Cherokee Feast of Days

“Believe in your dreams.” ~ Unknown

Petty, Michel & Associates © 1999 075ea4db84d7093767837cdd5dac8361.doc – Revised 4/20/99 Page 5 of 10 File: Marketing Binder > Motivation “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” ~ Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

“Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell and advertise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” ~ B.J. Palmer

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~ Unknown

“The Most Important Thing About Goals Is Having Them.” ~ Unknown

“Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.” ~ Goethe The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. - Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” ~ Arthur Ashe “To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” ~ E.H.Harriman There are three kinds of people in the world: - Ones that make things happen, - Ones that watch what happen, and… - Ones that ask “What happened?” ~ Author Unkown "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Petty, Michel & Associates © 1999 075ea4db84d7093767837cdd5dac8361.doc – Revised 4/20/99 Page 7 of 10 File: Marketing Binder > Motivation Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain

“We tend to get what we expect” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed…every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. ~ Unknown

ON CUMULATIVE RESULTS: The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built a brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. ~ David Joseph Schwartz

Petty, Michel & Associates © 1999 075ea4db84d7093767837cdd5dac8361.doc – Revised 4/20/99 Page 8 of 10 File: Marketing Binder > Motivation Success is the sum of detail. ~ Harvey S. Firestone To improve efficiency, keep it simple. “It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.” ~ Meyer’s Law

Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people” - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~ Peter Drucker

“Young Dr. Ignatius Piazza, fresh out of chiropractic school, wanted to open a practice in the beautiful Monterey Bay area of California. He was told by the local chiropractic community that the area was already overrun with chiropractors and there were not enough potential patients to support another practice. For the next four months, Piazza spent 10 hours a day going door-to-door and introducing himself as a new chiropractic doctor in town. He knocked on 12,500 doors, spoke to 6,500 people and invited them to come to his future open house. As a result of his perseverance and commitment, during his first month in practice, he saw 233 new patients and earned a record income for that time of $72,000 in one month!” ~ A Third Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

Anyway… “People can be unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” ~ Author Unknown

I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there. ~ Michael Jordan (Before Michael Jordan became a superstar player, he was once cut from his high school basketball team.)