islam motivation

pekerjaan yang jelas harus kita lakukan. Saat tidak ada prioritas, maka semua akan mengambang, semua akan tertunda, sebab pikiran kita bingung. — Rahmat, motivasi-islami.com

Kombinasi keyakinan dan penyerahan diri kepada Allah adalah obat mujarab dari putus asa. Nggak mungkin, orang yang yakin dan tawakal akan putus asa. — Rahmat, motivasi-islami.com

Percaya diri bukan sekedar dianggap hebat, namun memang sudah hebat sejak lahir. Hanya saja persepsi diri kita yang menghalangi kehebatan kita masing-masing. — Rahmat, motivasi-islami.com

“Jika sore tiba, janganlah tunggu waktu pagi, jika pagi tiba, janganlah tunggu waktu sore. Manfaatkan masa sehatmu sebelum tiba masa sakitmu dan manfaatkan masa hidupmu sebelum tiba ajalmu.” — Ibnu Umar, Putra Umar bin Khattab

Orang yang reaktif seolah orang yang hanyut tidak berdaya di derasnya sungai, dia bergerak sesuai dengan arahnya aliran sungai dan terombang-ambing.

Sementara orang yang proaktif seperti orang yang memiliki perahu atau speedboat yang kuat sehingga dia bisa bergerak kemana saja sesuai yang dia kehendaki tidak peduli kemana aliran sungai yang mengalir. — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Hanya orang bodoh yang membuang emas gara-gara tidak murni lagi. Emas itu tetap berharga meski kemurniannya 99%, bahkan 50%, bahkan hanya butiran emas pada tumpukan pasir.

Nila setitik, rusak susu sebelanga, tidak berlaku pada semua hal.

Artinya jangan membuang peluang berharga atau peluang kebaikan hanya karena ada masalah atau kekurangan. — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Saat ujian terus menempa
Saat seolah tidak ada yang mendukung
Saat seolah tidak ada yang membantu

itu mungkin teguran dari Allah,
agar kita sadar, bahwa hanya Allah tempat bergantung
agar kita ingat, hanya kepada Allah kita mohon pertolongan

Mohonlah pertolongan dengan shabar dan shalat — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Hati-hati …

Merasa sudah membaca, padahal belum
Merasa sudah berpikir, padahal belum

Tahukah Anda, bahwa fenomena ini terjadi justru di zaman informasi seperti saat ini. Manusia lebih emosional, ketimbang logis. Munculah konsep Marketing in Venus.

Saya tidak menuduh Anda seperti itu, namun ada baiknya kita meningkatkan kualitas diri, yaitu:
Lebih sabar dalam membaca, sehingga benar-benar paham.
Lebih jernih dalam berpikir, dengan logika dan ilmu yg memadai.

Saat Anda menguasai ini, percayalah Anda akan menjadi pribadi yang unggul. — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Jika Anda menemukan jalan buntu,
maka carilah jalan yang lain.
Percayalah, jalan itu ada.

Jika ada satu batasan menghalangi Anda,
jangan terhenti karena satu penghalang
sebab pintu menuju solusi dan tujuan itu masih banyak.

Tetap semangat sahabat … — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Yang terpenting bukan masalah apa yang menimpa kita, yang terpenting adalah bagaimana cara menghadapi masalah itu dengan benar. — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Orang berpikiran besar, tidak akan terganggu atau terhentikan oleh masalah-masalah kecil. — Rahmat, facebook.com/motivasi.islami

Sesungguhnya Allah suka kepada hamba yang berkarya dan terampil (professional atau ahli). Barangsiapa bersusah-payah mencari nafkah untuk keluarganya maka dia serupa dengan seorang mujahid di jalan Allah Azza wajalla. — (HR. Ahmad), Hadist

“Apabila hamba itu meninggalkan berdoa kepada kedua orang tuanya, niscaya terputuslah rezeki daripadanya. — (HR. Al-Hakim dan ad-Dailami), Hadist

Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang beriman, mengerjakan amal saleh, mendirikan shalat dan menunaikan zakat, mereka mendapat pahala di sisi Tuhannya. Tidak ada kekhawatiran terhadap mereka dan tidak (pula) mereka bersedih hati. — (QS.2:277), Al Quran

Siapakah yang mau memberi pinjaman kepada Allah, pinjaman yang baik (menafkahkan hartanya di jalan Allah), maka Allah akan meperlipat gandakan pembayaran kepadanya dengan lipat ganda yang banyak. Dan Allah menyempitkan dan melapangkan (rezki) dan kepada-Nya-lah kamu dikembalikan. — (QS.2:245), Al Quran

Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi (pula) kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu; Allah mengetahui, sedang kamu tidak mengetahui. — (QS.2:216), Al Quran

Kehidupan dunia dijadikan indah dalam pandangan orang-orang kafir, dan mereka memandang hina orang-orang yang beriman. Padahal orang-orang yang bertakwa itu lebih mulia daripada mereka di hari kiamat. Dan Allah memberi rezki kepada orang-orang yang dikehendaki-Nya tanpa batas. — (QS.2:212), Al Quran

Jadikanlah sabar dan shalat sebagai penolongmu. Dan sesungguhnya yang demikian itu sungguh berat, kecuali bagi orang-orang yang khusyu’, — (QS.2:45), Al Quran

Bersumber dari berbagai buku, kami telah merangkum Kata kata bijak bahasa jawa:

1. “Tansah ajeg mesu budi lan raga nganggo cara ngurangi mangan lan turu”. Artinya Kurangi makan dan tidur yang berlebihan agar kesehatan kita senantiasa terjaga.
2. “Kawula mung saderma, mobah-mosik kersaning Hyang sukmo”. Artinya Lakukan yang kita bisa, setelahnya serahkan kepada Tuhan.
3. “Ambeg utomo, andhap asor”. Artinya Selalu menjadi yang utama tapi selalu rendah hati.
4. “Ora kena nglarani”. Artinya Jangan melukai orang lain.
5. “Golek sampurnaning urip lahir batin lan golek kusumpurnaning pati”. Artinya Kita bertanggung jawab untuk mencari kesejahteraan hidup di dunia dan akhirat.
6. “Ala lan becik iku gegandhengan, Kabeh kuwi saka kersaning Pangeran”. Artinya Kebaikan dan kejahatan ada bersama-sama, itu semua adalah kehendak Tuhan.
7. “Manungsa mung ngunduh wohing pakarti”. Artinya Kehidupan manusia baik dan buruk adalah akibat dari perbuatan manusia itu sendiri.
8. “Narimo ing pandum”. Artinya Menerima segala rintangan dengan ikhlas.
9. “Adigang, adigung, adiguno “. Artinya jaga kelakuan, jangan somobong dengan kekuatan, kedudukan, ataupun latarbelakangmu.
10. “Urip kang utama, mateni kang sempurna”. Artinya Selama hidup kita melakukan perbuatan baik maka kita akan menemukan kebahagiaan di kehidupan selanjutnya.
11. “Mohon, mangesthi, mangastuti, marem”. Artinya Selalu meminta petunjuk Tuhan untuk meyelaraskan antara ucapan dan perbuatan agar dapat berguna bagi sesama.
12. “Alam iki sejatining Guru”. Artinya Alam adalah guru yang sejati.
13. “Gusti iku cedhak tanpa senggolan, adoh tanpa wangenan”. Artinya Tuhan itu dekat meski kita tubuh kita tidak dapat menyentuhnya dan akal kita dapat menjangkaunya.
14. “Memayu hayuning pribadi; memayu hayuning kulawarga; memayu hayuning sesama; memayu hayuning bawana”. Artinya berbuat baik bagi diri sendiri, keluarga, sesama manusia, makhluk hidup dan seluruh dunia.
15. “Natas, nitis, netes”. Artinya Dari Tuhan kita ada, bersama Tuhan kita hidup, dan bersatu dengan Tuhan kita kembali.
16. “Aja mbedakake marang sapadha-padha”. Artinya Hargai perbedaan, jangan membeda-bedakan sesama manusia.
17. “Rela lan legawa lair trusing batin”. Artinya Ikhlas lahir batin.

Update:

Kumpulan Pepatah Jawa dan ada artinya yang kurang mengerti penggunaan bahasanya:

1. Mburu uceng kelangan dheleg - Untuk menyatakan ketika mencari yang kecil justu kehilangan yang lebih beharga. 
2. Esok dhele sore tempe - Untuk menyatakan orang yang mudah terbawa angin dan tidak punya pendirian. 
3. Cecak nguntal cagak - Untuk menyatakan suatu keinginan yang tidak seimbang dengan kekuatan.Cincing-cincing mekso klebus - Untuk menyatakan maunya irit tapi boros.
4. Koyo banyu karo lengo - Untuk menyatakan orang yang tidak bisa rukun dan akur.
5. Diwenehi ati ngrogoh rempela - Untuk menyatakan orang yang tidak bersyukur ketika diberi.
6. Emban cindhe emban siladan - Untuk menyatakan orang yang pilih kasih dalam memberi atau membela.
7. Ojo Keminter Mundak Keblinger, Ojo Cidra Mundak Ciloko - Jangan merasa paling pandai agar tidak salah arah; Jangan suka berbuat curang agar tidak celaka.
8. Ojo Adigang, Adigung, Adiguna - Jangan sok kuasa, sok besar, sok sakti
9. Ojo Milik Barang Kang elok - Jangan tergiur oleh hal-hal yang tampak mewah, cantik, indah
10. Aja Mangro Mundak Kendo - Jangan berfikir mendua agar tidak luntur niat dan semangat.
11. Kegedhen empyak kurang cagak - Untuk menyatakan punya cita cita yang besar tetapi tidak punya kemampuan yang cukup.
12. Milih milih tebu oleh boleng - Untuk menyatakan terlalu banyak pertimbangan yang akhirnya justru mendapat yang tidak baik.
13. Kakehan gludug ora udan - Untuk menyatakan orang yang banyak bicara tetapi hasilnya tidak tampak.

Kumpulan pepatah bahasa jawa tanpa arti dalam bahasa indonesia

1. Ajining Diri Soko Lathi, Ajining Rogo Soko Busono 
2. Urip Sadermo Nglakoni Tumekaning Takdir
3. Sak Bejo-bejone Wong Kang Lali Isih Bejo Wong Kang Eling Lan Waspodo
4. Wong jowo ilang jawane
5. Becik ketitik olo ketoro
6. Kacang manut lanjaran
7. Becik ketitik olo ketoro
8. Kacang manut lanjaran
9. Nandur ngunduh, tlaten panen
10. Mendhem njero mikul nduwur
11. Jer basuki mawa beyo
12. Ing ngarso sung tulodho, ing madyo mangun karso, tutwuri handayani
13. Witing tresno jalaran soko kulino
14. Nandur ngunduh, tlaten panen
15. Mendhem njero mikul nduwur
16. Jer basuki mawa beyo
17. Ing ngarso sung tulodho, ing madyo mangun karso, tutwuri handayani
18. Witing tresno jalaran soko kulino 
19. Wong Sing Rumongso Pinter Tondo Yen Bodho

1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
2. The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague
4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey
7. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Goethe
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill
13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer
17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
- Unknown
18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown
21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown
22. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
25. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond
26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman
27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- Mark Twain
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan
35. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “Act or accept.”
- Anonymous
37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth
38. The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil
40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey
41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous
43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist
44. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
- John Cage
45. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown
47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown
48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.
- Dr. Phil
49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley
50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
- Conrad Hilton
52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
- Unknown
53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo
55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach
56. Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood
57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
59. Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
- Rosalind Russell
60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die
- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell
61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves
62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach
63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott
64. Life is “trying things to see if they work”
Ray Bradbury
65. If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.
Anonymous
66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69. In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
73. “You are what you think about all day long.” — Dr. Robert Schuller
74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
75. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
76. “Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard
78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power
79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost
80. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou
81. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James
82. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
- Sydney Harris
83. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans
84. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost
85. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.
88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster’s Law
89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
- Joe Clark
90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard
92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
94. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire
97. Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
98. There is no education like adversity.
- Disraeli
99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Author Unknown
Reader contributions:
101. The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
- W. Somerset Maugham
102. Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen.
- Bar Rafaeli
103. If you’ve got it. use it. If you don’t got it, then get it!
- Reader submitted
104. Son, if you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to redo it?
- Reader’s grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT
105. Faith held solely is the begining of action.
- Reader submitted
106. Positivity is all about overlooking the negetive fact.
- Reader submitted
107. Life is all about up and doing.
- Reader submitted
108. You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man!
- Reader submitted
109. Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is about the one right move that made ALL the difference.
- James Lockhart
110. Be humble enough to admit you’re not perfect, but determined enough to strive to be perfect.