Jon Gordon
- You don’t choose when you were born but you can make a lot of choices that determine how you live.
- The greatest gifts you can give your children is to love and believe in them. My parents did that for me.
- If you want something you will have to work for it.
- A teacher or coach who believes in you can change the course or your life.
- Be nice to everyone in high school. My high school friend Mark Rathjen is the reason why I got on the Today Show years ago that helped launch my career as a writer.
- Grit is not something you develop. It’s something we are all born with. The key is to remember you’ve always had it.
- Don’t worry about your greatness in the future. Just be great today.
- Do your best and let God do the rest. I used to worry so much. When I stopped worrying and started trusting things worked out.
- It’s more important to have vision than plans. You’ll often have to change plans to realize your vision.
- Talkers talk and doers do. Be a doer.
- Your belief will determine what you create.
- Don’t listen to the naysayers. Listen to your heart that knows you were born to do this.
- The career your parents would choose for you may not be the one meant for you. My mom wanted me to be an attorney.
- Keep dreaming even when your circumstances tell you it’s not going to happen.
- When you serve others and help them grow, you grow.
- Don’t chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.
- Being positive doesn’t just make you better. It makes everyone around you better.
- Make your family a priority. They will be the ones crying at your funeral and miss you long after you’re gone.
- Failure is your partner in growth. It doesn’t define you. It refines you.
- Make daily exercise a part of your life. I walk or run almost every day and still shoot hoops in my front yard.
- Food is medicine. What you eat has a huge influence on your gut health, brain health and immune system.
- The more I love my wife, the more I love my life.
- Happiness is an inside job. Don’t expect other people or things to make you happy.
- You have to love what you do. If you don’t love it you’ll never work to be great at it.
- Sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny. I lost a race for the city council of Atlanta when I was 26 and it led me ultimately to do this work.
- Garth Brooks was right. Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- Don’t be bitter. Get better.
- Forgiveness is the ultimate weight loss.
- Don’t hold grudges. When people wronged me I didn’t sue or fight. I learned from it and moved on. I focused on my future instead of fighting about the past and prospered as a result.
- If you don’t have your health nothing else matters.
- Laughter is good for the heart and soul.
- So often the worst event of your life prepares you for the greatest assignment of your life.
- People connect to you the most when you are being authentic and vulnerable.
- Relationships are everything.
- Don’t seek happiness. Decide to work with passion and purpose and happiness will find you.
- Never stop learning and growing. If you stay humble and hungry great things will continue to happen.
- Commitments are greater than goals. It is your commitments that lead you to your goals.
- Being a great parent and leader requires service, sacrifice and humility.
- When you appreciate, you elevate your mood and the people around you.
- Love is more powerful than fear.
- When I’m speaking the genius is not on stage. It’s in the audience. My job is to unleash their genius.
- Abundance flows into your life when gratitude flows out of your heart.
- There are a lot of great people in the world. Be an encourager and you’ll find them and they will find you.
- Being positive doesn’t mean you ignore reality. It means you maintain optimism and belief to create a better reality.
- No one creates success alone. We all need a team to be successful.
- God’s plan is greater than our plan.
- The more you give the more it comes back to you. It’s not why you do it but it’s what happens.
- Just as stars shine the brightest in the darkness, positive people shine the most through adversity.
- My faith in God doesn’t make life easier. It makes me stronger.
- The best is still yet to come.
-Jon