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Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time
Lately I have been regularly posting inspiring quotes on twitter and facebook (thanks to the very handy Twitter application, my tweets are directly posted in facebook in real time). If you haven’t added me on Facebook and Twitter, please feel free to do so
The thing I love about inspiring quotes is they pack so much wisdom in so few words. Some of them are really mind and heart opening – just reading them has the power to give you an eureka! moment. Based on the feedback I’ve been getting from others, it seems that they share the same sentiments too.
Since the quotes are so popular, I decided to put together the most inspiring quotes so that all of you can benefit from these golden words of wisdom. These are quotes which have been meticulously hand-picked by me while surfing the net, reading books, or simply quotes I write when I get an
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epiphany moment.
For the quotes that resonate with you, make sure to put them around you through your environment so you are always reminded of them. Some examples of good places to place these quotes are:
• Mobile welcome message • Life handbook • Noticeboard and/or walls in your room • Desktop wallpaper • Cover of your folder • Working desk • Photo frames in your house or office
Since I was a student, I have always been a big fan of motivational quotes. It’s one of my habits to surround myself with these quotes. Today, I have these quotes in places such as my mobile welcome message, my noticeboard in my bedroom, my life handbook and my office so I’m always in the face of inspiration. I recommend to do it too, because it’s really a great source of positive energy
On the next page, you will find the menu overview of over 300 quotes. I have grouped the quotes into broad categories below for easy reference. Click on the links to browse to the respective categories. Enjoy :D
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Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time (Over 300 and counting!)• Quotes on Life (21 quotes) • Quotes on Change (3 quotes) • Quotes on Past, Present and Future (14 quotes) • Quotes on Purpose (3 quotes) • Quotes on Dreams and Passion (27 quotes) • Quotes on Imagination & Creativity (2 quotes) • Quotes on Goals (7 quotes) • Quotes on Attitudes and Mindsets (40 quotes) • Quotes on Confidence (18 quotes) • Quotes on Personal Power (4 quotes) • Quotes on Courage & Fear (12 quotes) • Quotes on Obstacles, Failure & Success (58 quotes) • Quotes on Planning (3 quotes) • Quotes on Action (20 quotes) • Quotes on Persistence (10 quotes) • Quotes on Time Management and Productivity (8 quotes) • Quotes on Wealth, Money & Finance (3 quotes) • Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery (20 quotes) • Quotes on Love (12 quotes) • Quotes on People and The World (29 quotes)
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Quotes on Life1. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
2. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us .” – Alexander Graham Bell
4. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
5. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
6. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
7. “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
8. “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.”
9. “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment
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10.“There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior
11.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.
13.Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.
14.Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
15.Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain
16.Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.
17.The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced – Art Van Der Leeuw
18.“My life is my message.” – Gandhi
19.“If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield
20.“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
21.“In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp (Regarding meditation)
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Quotes on Change
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1. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
2. All great changes are preceded by chaos. ~ Deepak Chopra
3. Change is not pleasant, But change is constant. Only when we change and grow, We’ll see a world we never know. ~From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker
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Quotes on Past, Present and Future1. “Don’t let the past steal your present” – Cherralea Morgen
2. “One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” – S.N. Goenka
3. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma
4. The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
5. “Be present – it is the only moment that matters.” Peaceful Warrior
6. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – B. Olatunji
7. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.~ Ann Landers
8. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go
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of it. Let go & it will be yours forever”. – Deepak Chopra
9. Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
10.“There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
11.“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
12.“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester
13.Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions ~ Albert Einstein
14.To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.
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Quotes on Purpose1. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in
life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
2. “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
3. “One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mill
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Quotes on Dreams and Passion1. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
2. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.”
3. “At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
4. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
5. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach
6. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman
7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it
is never too late to be who you are meant to be.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks
10.“There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis
12.“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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13.“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown
14.“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
15.“No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Anonymous
16.“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester
17.“You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Pursuit of Happyness (Movie)
18.“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot
19.“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
20.“Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.”
21.“Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.”
22.“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” ~ Richard Koch
23.“I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” ~ Terry Hostetler
24.“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
25.“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
26.“Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen
27.“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
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Quotes on Imagination and Creativity1. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein.
2. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein
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Quotes on Goals
1. “In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
2. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” – Greg Anderson
3. “The most important thing about goals is having one.” – Geoffry F. Abert
4. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
5. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
6. “Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
7. “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar
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Quotes on Attitudes and Mindsets1. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison
2. “How you think is as important as as what you think”
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3. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” —Lao-Tze
4. “The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.”
5. “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen
6. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.”
7. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” – Viktor Frankl
8. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” – William James
9. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” – Henry Ford
10.“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
11.“The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.”
12.“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
13.The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
14.“A man can do all things if he will.” — Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72)
15.“You can’t get to a place that you don’t believe exists.”
16.“There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.” – Tony Robbins
17.“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
18.(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure
19.“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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20.“Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.” – Peaceful Warrior
21.“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” ~ H. Jackson Brown
22.“If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.”
23.“Our life experiences often create a limited worldview of what is and what is not possible. Thus to maximize your experience of life, base your dreams outside of your life experiences.”
24.“To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.”
25.“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” – Sir James Dewar
26.“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” ~Ernest Holmes
27.“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” –John Ruskin
28.“There is no teacher who can teach anything new. He can just help us to remember the things we always knew.” – Odyssey of the Mind, Enigma
29.“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.” – Zig Ziglar
30.“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” -Vince Lombarde
31.“Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it.”
32.“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ~Winston Churchill
33.“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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34.“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities” – Terry Josephson
35.“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
36.If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. -Norman Vincent Peale
37.The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
38.If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because you’re not taking good care of your grass.
39.One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
40.If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
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Quotes of Confidence1. When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you. – Deepam Chaterjee
2. If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
3. Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong
4. “Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.” – Dr. John Eliot from Overachievement
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Quotes on Personal Power
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1. In order to be walked over, you have to be lying down.
2. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
3. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. ” – Judy Garland
4. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas Edison
5. “Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently.” – Zig Ziglar
6. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” ~J.K. Rowling
7. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
8. “Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you like to be.“
9. “Many answers to what you seek don’t lie “out there”. If you look inwards, you’ll find the answer has been in you all along.”
10.“We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.” – Jim Rohn
11.“If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.”
12.“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
13.“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
14.“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
15.“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” – J. Gitomer
16.“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
17.“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
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18.“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.” – Herbert Ottto
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Quotes on Courage & Fear
1. “When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.” – Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
2. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.” – Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
4. “Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.”
5. “Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness” – Robin Sharma, The Monk who sold his Ferrari
6. “If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown
7. “If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?” – Les Brown
8. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
9. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down
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and listen.” ~Winston Churchill
10.Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong
11.“A warrior is not about perfection. Or victory. Or invulnerability. He is about absolute vulnerability. That is the only true courage.” – Peaceful Warrior
12.“Don’t be timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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Quotes on Obstacles, Failure and Success1. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of
all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” – J. Gitomer
2. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Sydney Smith
3. “There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen
4. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions.”
5. “As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” – Tony Robbins
6. “Athletes visualize winning 1000s of times before they step on the track. They’ve already won. Other people just don’t know it
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yet.”
7. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “There is no failure except in no longer trying” – Elbert Hubbard
9. “Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” Phillip Adams
10.“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
11.“Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” – Herodotus
12.“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama
13.“Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.”
14.“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill
15.“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” – Napoleon Hill
16.“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”- Napoleon Hill
17.“A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill
18.“Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.”
19.“Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton
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20.“To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
21.“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone Chairman
22.“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” -Mary Kay Ash founder
23.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
24.“Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.” – Funmi Wale-Adegbite
25.“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” – Anthony Robbins
26.“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book)
27.“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
28.“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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 (Nike ‘Failure’ Commercial)
29.“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
30.“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot
31.“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb.
32.“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
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33.“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan
34.“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
35.“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
36.“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
37.“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
38.“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy
39.“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn
40.“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” – Dennis Green
41.“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player
42.“But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” – Rocky Balboa
43.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
44.Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~G. Woodberry
45.“Success is what you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
46.“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” ~Robert Kiyosaki
47.“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” -Theodore Rosevelt
48.“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.” – Deamsian Wisdom
49.“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” Abraham Lincoln
50.“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” -Pable Picasso
51.“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell
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52.It is our experiences that mold us into who we are….during times of adversity our true character will show.
53.You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.
54.“Winners don’t Quit. That’s why they Win.”
55.The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.- Elbert Hubbard
56.(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure
57.“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
58.“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt
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Quotes on Planning1. “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”
2. “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne
3. “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar
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Quotes on Action
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1. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. ~ Vaclav Havel
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3. The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale
4. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
5. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie
6. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson
7. It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you do that makes a difference.
8. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. ~ Nora Roberts
9. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten – Tony Robbins
10.We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don’t know how many they are, so let’s start making the most of our Todays! – Ivana Trump
11.The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well!
12.“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”–Mark Twain
13.The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
14.“When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.” – Angel
15.“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
16.“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
17.“There is no starting or stopping. Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior
18.“If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown
19.You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. – Paulo Coelho
20.Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks
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21.“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Quotes on Persistence1. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to
use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
2. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
3. “The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
4. “The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! – Rocky Balboa
7. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” -Tobias Wolff
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8. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
9. “Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
10.“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
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Quotes on Time Management and Productivity1. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.” – Peter Drucker
4. Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. – Steve Pavlina
5. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
6. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie
7. “Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson
8. “It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford
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Quotes on Wealth, Money and Finance
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1. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Unknown
2. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
3. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” ~ Richard Koch
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Quotes on Happiness and Emotional Mastery1. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
2. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.” ~Margaret Runbeck
3. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
4. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel
6. If things depress you, it’s because you allow yourself to be affected by it. Results are just results, and our emotions are our emotions. People draw attachment to outcomes and situations which affect their emotional state. Every situation there is always something to be learned, & if we are able to
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take away the important lessons, we will eventually achieve what we set out to do.”
7. “People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.”
8. “Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.” John Powers
9. “Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis Smedes
12.“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha
13.“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” ~G.K. Chesterton
14.“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu
15.“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” -Thomas A. Edison
16.“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard
17.“Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.”
18.“To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.”
19.No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
20.“Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.”
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Quotes on Love1. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in
love.” -Albert Einstein.
2. “To say I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” – Ayn Rand
3. You may be one person in this world, but to one person you mean the world.
4. “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha
5. “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia
6. “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia
7. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
8. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
9. “Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” – Rumi
10.“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
11.“A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.”-Buddha
12.“It’s the little things done consistently over time, straight from your heart, that actually have the greatest impact.”
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Quotes on People and The World1. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto
you.” – Golden Rule
2. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “Do not do to others as you would not have others do to you.” – Silver Rule
4. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.” – Andrew Carnegie
5. “Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the object on which it is poured.”~Ann Landers
6. “Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.” – Stephen Covey
7. “You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.” – Jim Rohn
8. “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” – Rene Descartes
9. “Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!” – Prophet Muhammad
10.“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” – Peaceful Warrior
11.“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” – Robert Redford
12.If you find you are not valued and appreciated, then shift your attention to places where you will be valued and appreciated.
13.Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves. – Carl Jung
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14.To raise your consciousness, surround yourself with people of higher consciousness
15.“Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
16.“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
17.“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
18.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
19.“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” -J. Gitomer
20.“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
21.“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don’t like”
22.“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” – Goethe
23.So you have some enemies…good, that means you stood up for something!” – Winston Churchill
24.A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
25.“You cannot teach a man anything; You can only help him find it within himself” – Galileo Galilei
26.We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
27.“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”
28.“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Ann Landers
29.Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men – Martin Luther King
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• If Your Life Was A RPG, What Type Of Character Would You Be? • What Are You Running Away From? • Create Real Change In Life: Address Root Cause vs. Effects • Are You a Self-Help Junkie? • How To Start When You Have Nothing • Finding Your Inner Self • You are the CEO of Your Life • Why Perfectionism Isn't Good and How To Overcome It (3-part
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