Nido Qubein is an American Lebanese-Jordanian businessman and motivational speaker. He currently serves as president of High Point University, a position he has held since 2005. These Nido Qubein quotes will motivate you.
Best Nido Qubein Quotes
- Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. ~ Nido R Qubein
- The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. ~ Nido R Qubein
- A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision ~ Nido R Qubein
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Success doesn’t come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well-traveled. If you want to walk it, you can. ~ Nido R Qubein
- When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do. ~ Nido R Qubein - The time is now, the person is you. ~ Nido R Qubein
- For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Achieving your vision doesn’t mean you’ve reached the end of the line. It simply means that you’ve come to a new starting place. ~ Nido R Qubein
- If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you’ll be amazed at what you can do. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work. ~ Nido R Qubein
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If what you’re working for really matters, you’ll give it all you’ve got. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it. ~ Nido R Qubein
- One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft ~ Nido R Qubein
- The process of growing and learning always involves risk. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units. ~ Nido R Qubein
- It’s not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically. ~ Nido R Qubein
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Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old. ~ Nido R Qubein
- The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It’s inside you – if you listen to it, you can play it. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future – a vision based on common values – is only training. ~ Nido R Qubein
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Motivation without mobilization means only frustration. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Most of us tend to suffer from ‘agenda anxiety’, the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets. ~ Nido R Qubein
- You can’t think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively. ~ Nido R Qubein
- The power to affect your future lies within your own hands. ~ Nido R Qubein
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Change brings opportunity. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Make education a continuing, never-ending process. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Say exactly what you mean. Enough said. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image. ~ Nido R Qubein
- When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Training teaches how. Education teaches why. ~ Nido R Qubein, Nido Qubein quotes on education
- When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Goals help you keep in perspective what’s really important so you don’t spend all of your time doing what seems urgent. ~ Nido R Qubein
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People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day – putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth. ~ Nido R Qubein
- People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all. ~ Nido R Qubein
- Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become. ~ Nido R Qubein