[Zaiitz3]

Before this weekend’s Power 10/15/20, I feel like it would be great to have a collection of quotes or saying that motivate YOU (in hopes that it will motivate all the readers of Another71)

Mine is posted as my signature: “It always seems impossible until its done.” Nelson Mandela

We WILL complete the CPA journey, even if it’s discouraging at times… What’s your quote?

*New York*
AUD 74, 88! 04/02/12
BEC 75! 08/30/12
FAR 68, 73, 83! 10/27/12
REG 80! 11/24/12

DONE!!!

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

[Zaiitz3]

I love the last one @jamesjohnson11, I feel like that about explains it perfectly!

Also, we have such a great collection of motivating quotes here! I hope it's going to benefit everyone when they're feeling down, unmotivated, or tired of this journey we're all taking.

*New York*
AUD 74, 88! 04/02/12
BEC 75! 08/30/12
FAR 68, 73, 83! 10/27/12
REG 80! 11/24/12

DONE!!!

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

[Anonymous]

I keep some quotes in the front of my notebook, but the one thing I have written in there that motivates me the most is seeing my name with ,CPA after it (shhhhhh… nobody tell the AICPA)

[Zaiitz3]

I'll try that one to keep me focused…

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – T.S. Eliot quotes

*New York*
AUD 74, 88! 04/02/12
BEC 75! 08/30/12
FAR 68, 73, 83! 10/27/12
REG 80! 11/24/12

DONE!!!

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

[katiekanton]

Here's another in that vein:

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.” -Mario Andretti

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[SoCalCPA]

@katiekanton, the Calvin Coolidge one is golden =)

B - (4/2012)
A - (5/2012)
R - (1/2012) Done!
F - (10/2011) Done!

[misanthrope87]

@nolifecpa I like that one!

B 2/12 87
A 11/11 90
R 8/11 86
F 5/12 88

[mla1169]

My favorite (sorry to all the guys) is Eleanor Roosevelt's “A woman is like a teabag, you'll never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water”

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[yankeeaccountant]

@mla1186

I love that one. I also like what she said about fear:

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[T-rex]

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work.” – Thomas Edison

As a bonus, here's really awful Halloween joke:

Q: Who greets you at a haunted house?

A: A host ghost.

You can thank Laffy Taffy for that one.

AUD - 95, BEC - 85
REG - 85, Rawrrrrrr FAR - 88
Used Becker for all sections.
CA candidate not residing in CA

[yankeeaccountant]

I read this thread all the way through for motivation to kick some REG ass today. I really needed this today. 🙂

Here are a couple more to add to the pot:

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”

Frank A. Clark

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot

[HumanPiranha]

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

[nolifecpa]

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up ~ Thomas Edison

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~ Dale Carnegie

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent ~ Marilyn vos Savant

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ~ Napoleon Hill

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting. -Walt Disney

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not. – Denis Waitley

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try

Success is not the absence of failure. Success is what happens when you choose to move on beyond failure

Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently. -Zig Ziglar

There is always one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve. The fear of failure

REG-65,71,74,73,70,74,79
BEC-60's,60's,69,71,76*,78
FAR-67,66,65,79
AUD-54,60's,65,83*,69,80
*expired

DONE

[NECain]

If you're not first, you're last – Ricky Bobby

You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's arse, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it? – Tommy Boy (I know this isn't motivational, but a good quote nonetheless)

REG - 79
BEC - 75
AUD - 84
FAR - 75
Done...Thank you Wiley Books, Wiley Test Bank, and the NINJA Notes

[Anonymous]

Couple from a show I used to watch:

“No one is going to give you a map; you have to walk your own path.”

“It's just like it is with the stars, there are brights ones, and those that are dim.”

[Anonymous]

” Failure is always an event never a person”

I loved reading all the quotes here!!

[Author]

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