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Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time

Lately I have been regularly posting inspiring quotes

on Facebook andTwitter. 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 101 of 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 epiphany moment. I have grouped the quotes into broad categories below for easy reference.

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

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• 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, and my life handbook 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.

I present to you the most inspiring quotes of all time.

Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time (Over 400 and counting!)

• Quotes on Life (23 quotes)

• Quotes on Purpose (6 quotes)

• Quotes on Past, Present and Future (19 quotes)

• Quotes on Dreams and Passion (30 quotes)

• Quotes on Goals (11 quotes)

• Quotes on Hard Work (5 quotes)

• Quotes on Change (5 quotes)

• Quotes on Truth & Honesty (2 quotes)

• Quotes on Imagination & Creativity (4 quotes)

• Quotes on Confidence & Personal Power (24 quotes)

• Quotes on Courage & Fear (13 quotes)

• Quotes on Obstacles, Failure & Success (70 quotes)

• Quotes on Taking Action (29 quotes)

• Quotes on Planning (5 quotes)

• Quotes on Persistence (11 quotes)

• Quotes on Time Management and Productivity (10 quotes)

• Quotes on Wealth, Money & Finance (4 quotes)

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• Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery (31 quotes)

• Quotes on Love (11 quotes)

• Quotes on Learning & Growth (13 quotes)

• Quotes on Attitudes and Mindsets (44 quotes)

• Quotes on Responsibility (3 quotes)

• Quotes on Gratitude and Kindness (7 quotes)

• Quotes on Friendship (6 quotes)

• Quotes on Leadership (10 quotes)

• Quotes on Helping Others (5 quotes)

• Quotes on People and The World (26 quotes)

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Quotes on Life

1. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the

past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~

Unknown

2. “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

3. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life

in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

4. “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

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s

thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, 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

6. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

7. “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

8. “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” ~ Celestine Chua

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9. “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.” ~ Celestine Chua

10.“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

11.“Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy

things.” ~ Celestine Chua

12.“There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior

13.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.“Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.” ~ Celestine Chua

15."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.” Celestine Chua

16.“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain

17.“Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.” ~ Celestine Chua

18.The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced – Art Van Der Leeuw

19.“My life is my message.” – Gandhi

20.“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

21.“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Unknown

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22.“In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp

(Regarding meditation)

23.“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn

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Quotes on Purpose

1. “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

4. “Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.” ~ Victor Frankl

5. “Make your life a mission – not an intermission” ~ Unknown

6. “Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” ~ Richard Bach

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Quotes on Past, Present and Future

1. “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. “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to

where you can go.” ~ Bob Proctor

4. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of

your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

5. “The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the

more you are able to create the future you seek.” ~ Celestine

Chua

6. “Be present – it is the only moment that matters.” Peaceful Warrior

7. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – B. Olatunji

8. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” ~ Ann Landers

9. “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

of it. Let go & it will be yours forever”. – Deepak Chopra

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10.“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.” ~ Celestine Chua

11.“There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” ~ Celestine Chua

12.“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

13.“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

14.“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

15.“To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.” ~ Celestine Chua

16.“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

17.“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” ~ Herbert Spencer

18.“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha

19.“Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and using them to your advantage.”

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Quotes on Dreams and Passion

1. “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.” ~ Celestine Chua

3. “At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then

inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve

4. “Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid

the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already

naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ~ Steve Jobs.

5. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar

6. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach

7. “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

8. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

9. “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

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10.“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

11.“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

12.“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If

you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis

13.“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

~ Tony Robbins

14.“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown

16.“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

17.“No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Unknown

18.“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

19.“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)

20.“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports

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revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot

21.“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.”

– John Eliot

22.“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.” ~ Celestine Chua

23.“Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.”

~ Unknown

24.“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

25.“I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” ~ Terry Hostetler

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

27.“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

28.“Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen

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29.“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

30.“20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the

safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” ~ Mark Twain

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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 only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the

reasons we create why we can’t have them.” ~Tony Robbins

5. “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

6. “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

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7. “Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” ~ Stephen Covey

8. “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

9. “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” ~ Benjamin Mays

10.“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” ~ Unknown

11.“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napolean Hill

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Quotes on Hard Work

1. "I don't believe in luck. Luck = Leaving things to chance and outside world. I believe in being harbingers of our fate, taking action and creating our

own path and destiny in life. Your life is yours to create - Don't let others do it for you." - Celestine Chua

2. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell

3. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player

4. “Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” ~ Celestine Chua

5. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

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Quotes on Change

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

4. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your

attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be

mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~ Sri Ram

5. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

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Quotes on Truth and Honesty

1. “The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.” ~ Unknown

2. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Unknown

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Quotes on Imagination and Creativity

1. “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

3. “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Pablo Picasso

4. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Quotes on Confidence & Personal Power

1. “Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world

can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown

2. “When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake

you.” ~ Deepam Chaterjee

3. “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside

your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your

consciousness.” ~ Unknown

4. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to

be wrong.” ~ Unknown

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5. “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

6. “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” ~ Unknown

7. “In order to be walked over, you have to be lying down.” ~ Celestine Chua

8. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

9. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. ” – Judy Garland

10.“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas Edison

11.“Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can

do it permanently.” – Zig Ziglar

12.“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the

power we need inside ourselves already.” ~J.K. Rowling

13.“The person who says something is impossible should not

interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb

14.“Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything

else you like to be.“ ~ Celestine Chua

15.“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.” ~

Celestine Chua

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16.“We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.” – Jim Rohn

17.“If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.” ~ Celestine Chua

18.“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach

19.“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown

20.“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

21.“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

22.“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle

23.“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

24.“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.” ~ Celestine Chua

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 and listen.” ~Winston Churchill

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10.“Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong.” ~ Unknown

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”

13.“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” – Helen Keller

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Quotes on Obstacles, Failure & Success

1. “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller

2. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the

bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley

3. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if

you recognize, claim, develop and use them” – Zig Ziglar

4. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your

goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

5. “History, though, shows us that the people who end up changing

the world- the great political, social, scientific, technological,

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artistic, even sports revolutionaries- are always nuts, until they’re right, and then they’re geniuses.” ~ Dr. John Eliot

6. “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

7. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Sydney Smith

8. “There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen

9. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your

problems and work on addressing them instead.” ~ Celestine Chua

10.“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” – Tony Robbins

11.“Athletes visualize winning 1000s of times before they step on the track. They’ve already won. Other people just don’t know it yet.” ~ Unknown

12.“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

14.“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have

another go, success won’t happen.” ~ Phillip Adams

15.“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

16.“Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the

goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at

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the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” – Herodotus

17.“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama

18.“Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.” ~ Unknown

19.“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill

20.“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” ~ Napoleon Hill

21.“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” ~ Napoleon Hill

22.“A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” ~Napoleon Hill

23.“Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of

failure; Failure is merely a pit stop between where you stand and

success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires

winners and defeats losers.” ~ Unknown

24.“Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton

25.“To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you

just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

26.“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

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27.“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

28.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

29.“Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” ~ Celestine Chua

30.“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

31.“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

32.“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book)

33.“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington

34.“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; 15 Amazing

Commercials To Inspire the Greatness in You )

35.“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

36.“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot

37.“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb.

38.“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

39.“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan

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40.“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

41.“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

42.“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

43.“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

44.“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy

45.“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn

46.“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” – Dennis Green

47.“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

48.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius

49.~Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” ~ G. Woodberry

50.“Success is what you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

51.“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

52.“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Rosevelt

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53.“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.” ~ Deamsian Wisdom

54.“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

55.“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” ~ Pablo Picasso

56.“A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” ~ Unknown

57.“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell

58.“It is our experiences that mold us into who we are….during times of adversity our true character will show.” ~ Unknown

59.“You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.” ~ Celestine Chua

60.“Winners don’t quit. That’s why they Win.” ~ Unknown

61.“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

62.“(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure.” ~

Unknown

63.“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

64.“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

65.“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen

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66.“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” ~ Unknown

67.“Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and using them to your advantage.” ~ Celestine Chua

68.“Nothing is impossible.” ~ Celestine Chua

69.“Impossible, when spelled out, stands for ‘I’m possible’.” ~ Unknown

70.“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

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Quotes on Taking Action

1. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” -Pablo Picasso

2. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

– Jim Rohn

3. “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better

tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

4. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” ~ Celestine Chua

5. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy

defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time

defending your problems and work on addressing them instead.” ~

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Celestine Chua

6. “It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” ~ Vaclav Havel

7. “The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

8. “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” – Stevie Wonder

9. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

10.“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson

11.“It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you do that makes a difference.” ~ Celestine Chua

12.“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

13.“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ~ Tony Robbins

14.“Don’t get bogged down with all the details of how it’s going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.” – Brian

Jchang

15.“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well!”

16.“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”–Mark Twain

17.“The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

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18.“When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.” – Angel

19.“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham

Lincoln

20.“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit

there.” —Will Rogers

21.“There is no starting or stopping. Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior

22.“If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you

don’t.” – Unknown

23.You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in

it. – Paulo Coelho

24.Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks

25.“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

26.“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” ~ Marcia Wieder

27.“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.

28.“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

29.“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tze

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30."I don't believe in luck. Luck = Leaving things to chance and outside world. I believe in being harbingers of our fate, taking action and creating

our own path and destiny in life. Your life is yours to create - Don't let others do it for you." ~ Celestine Chua

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Quotes on Planning

1. “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” ~ Unknown

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

4. “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

5. “Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” –

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Quotes on Persistence

1. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

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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

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

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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

11.“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” ~ Chinese Proverb

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Quotes on Time Management & Productivity

1. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it.

You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can

never get it back.” ~ Harvey MacKay

2. “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.

3. “I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.” ~

Henry David Thoreau

4. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you

bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn

5. “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.” – Peter Drucker

6. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

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7. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” ~ Dale Carnegie

8. “Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson

9. “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 & Finance

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

4. “Becoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as

about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.” ~ T. Harv Eker

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Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery

1. “Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you

have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear

you. Live as though heaven is on earth.” ~Souza

2. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.

Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

3. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” ~

Oprah Winfrey

4. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

5. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.” ~Margaret Runbeck

6. “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

7. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~ Mildred Barthel

9. “If things depress you, it’s because you allow yourself to be affected by it. Results are results; 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, and if we are

able to take away the important lessons, we will eventually achieve what we set out to do.” ~ Celestine Chua

10.“People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.” ~ Unknown

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11.“Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.” ~ John Powers

12.“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~ Ralph Waldo

Emerson

15.“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner

was you.” – Lewis Smedes

16.“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them

with compassion.” – Buddha

17.“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” ~G.K.

Chesterton

18.“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu

19.“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” -Thomas A. Edison

20.“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard

21.“Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.” ~ Celestine Chua

22.“To create more positive results in your life, replace 'if only' with 'next time'.” ~ Celestine Chua

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23.“No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

24.“Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.”

25.“When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you.” ~ Deepam Chaterjee

26.“The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.” ~ Unknown

27.“Happiness is an effect of doing what you love, not an end goal to be achieved.” ~ Celestine Chua

28.“The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.” – Wayne Dyer

29.“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.” ~ Glenn Turner

30.“Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that’s why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream” ~ Unknown

31.“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~ Unknown

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Quotes on Love

1. “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 (Check out Be a Better Me in 30 Days, Day 16: Appreciate

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Yourself)

3. “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha

4. “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia

5. “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia

6. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

7. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

8. “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

9. “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller

10.“It’s the little things done consistently over time, straight from your heart, that actually have the greatest impact.”

11.“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”

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Quotes on Learning and Growth

1. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ~ Mark Twain

2. “The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” – John

Simone

3. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its

original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

4. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

~ Confucious

5. “Beyond getting inspired after reading a self-help post, the more

important question is – what do you intend to do now with that

information?” – Article: Are You a Self-Help Junkie?

6. “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” ~

Unknown

7. “The final mystery is oneself.” ~ Oscar Wilde

8. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

9. “The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” ~ Unknown

10.“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tze

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11.“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

12.“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle

13.“The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.”

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Quotes on Attitudes and Mindsets

1. “A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing

more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability -if

you try even a little bit- to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story,

to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.”

~ Abraham-Hicks

2. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally

astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison

3. “How you think is as important as as what you think.” – Unknown

4. “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

5. “The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.” – Celestine Chua

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6. “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen

7. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.” – Unknown

8. “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

9. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of

mind.” – William James

10.“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” –

Henry Ford

11.“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist

sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12.“The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how

much change you can create in it.” ~ Celestine Chua

13.“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is

because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

14.“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” ~ Unknown

15.“A man can do all things if he will.” – Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72)

16.“You can’t get to a place that you don’t believe exists.” ~ Unknown

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17.“There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.” – Tony Robbins

18.“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

19.“(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success. BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure.” ~ Unknown

20.“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

21.“Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.” – Peaceful Warrior

22.“When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails.” ~ H. Jackson Brown

23.“If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.” ~ Celestine Chua

24.“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.” ~ Celestine Chua

25.“To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.” ~ Celestine Chua

26.“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” – Sir James Dewar

27.“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” ~Ernest Holmes

28.“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” –John Ruskin

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29.“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

30.“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.” – Zig Ziglar

31.“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” -Vince Lombarde

32.“Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.” ~ Deepak Chopra

33.“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ~Winston Churchill

34.“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ~ George Bernard Shaw

35.“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities” – Terry Josephson

36.“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

37.“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to

become different yourself.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

38.“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.” ~ Celestine Chua

39.“If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because

you’re not taking good care of your grass.” – Unknown

40.“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only

interests.” – John Stuart Mill

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41.“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

42.“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?” — Albert Einstein

44.“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering

change rather than allowing it to master you.” ~ Sri Ram

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Quotes on Responsibility

1. “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say” Martin Luther

2. “The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.” ~ Celesitne Chua

3. “The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.” ~ Celestine Chua

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Quotes on Gratitude & Kindness

1. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our

gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick (Day 14 of 30DLBL – A Day of

Gratitude)

2. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one

to say “thank you?” — William A. Ward

3. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a

kindness.” – Seneca

4. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind

word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of

caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo

Buscaglia

5. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato

(Day 14 of 30BBM – Acts of Kindness)

6. “The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.” – Wayne Dyer

7. “A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.” – Buddha

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Quotes on Friendship

1. “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

2. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks

out.” ~ Unknown

3. “You may be one person in this world, but to one person you

mean the world.” ~ Unknown

4. “I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with.

Period. For me, that’s been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I

hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want

to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you… and [are]

having a fun time.” – John Assaraf

5. “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ~ Unknown

6. “When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.” ~ Unknown

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Quotes on Leadership & People Management

1. “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach” –

Albert Einstein

2. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;

leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the

right wall.” ~ Unknown

3. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right

things.” – Peter F. Drucker

4. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the

way.” ~ Unknown

5. “To move people toward excellence, begin to expect excellence

and then communicate that.” - Ron Clark

6. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define

yourself.” -Wayne Dyer

7. “Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.” – Stephen Covey

8. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

9. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ” – Mother Teresa

10.“After you plant a seed in the ground, you don’t dig it up every week to see how it is doing” – William Coyne, 3M on limiting inferences to his

team’s work

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Quotes on Helping Others

1. “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your

path.” ~Buddha

2. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and

the life of the candle will not be shortened.” ~ Buddha

3. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more

and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

4. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ” – Mother

Teresa

5. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can

do him absolutely no good.” ~ Ann Landers

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Quotes on People and The World

1. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you”

~ Wayne Dyer

2. “Never argue with ignorance. It only leads to frustration.” ~ Unknown

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3. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” – Golden Rule

4. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small

minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “Do not do to others as you would not have others do to you.” –

Silver Rule

6. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to

climb.” – Andrew Carnegie

7. “Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored &

destroy the object on which it is poured.”~Ann Landers

8. “You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.” – Jim Rohn

9. “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” – Rene Descartes

10.“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

11.“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” – Peaceful Warrior

12.“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” – Robert Redford

13.“If you find you are not valued and appreciated, then shift your attention to places where you will be valued and appreciated.” ~ Celestine Chua

14.To raise your consciousness, surround yourself with people of higher consciousness. (15 Ways To Raise Your Consciousness – Exclusive article

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in Personal Excellence Book)

15.“Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

16.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

17.“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

18.“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don’t like.”

19.“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

20.So you have some enemies…good, that means you stood up for something!” – Winston Churchill

21.“You cannot teach a man anything; You can only help him find it within himself” – Galileo Galilei

22.“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Unknown

23.“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” ~ Unknown

24.“The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain

25.“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” – Peaceful Warrior

26.“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

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Afterword

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• Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away? • Discover Your Real Purpose (7-part series)• How To Know What You Want To Do In Life

Awareness & Growth

• 101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest • 101 Ways To Be a Better Person • 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself in Life • How Are You Faring In Your Life Now? • Get Your Big Rocks In First • Are You Putting Any Parts of Your Life On Hold? • What Is Your Consciousness Level? • Are You a Self-Help Junkie? • You Always Have A Choice • Increase Your Mental Clarity in Just 15 Minutes • Write A Letter To Your Future Self • Create Your Life Handbook • Blind Spots In Personal Growth • How To Create an Inspirational Room • If Your Life Was A RPG, What Type Of Character Would You

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Maximizing Productivity

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• What Are You Running Away From? • Create Real Change In Life: Address Root Cause vs. Effects • 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

series)• Why I Do Year End Reviews (And 6 Important Questions To

Ask Yourself in Your Review)• 11 Important Life Lessons To Learn from Steve Jobs

Cultivate Life Transforming Habits

• Is Your Routine Empowering You?

• 21 Days To Cultivate Life Transforming Habits

• 21-Day Lifestyle Revamp Program

• 45 Tips To Live a Healthier Life

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• Improve Your Posture: Benefits Of A Good Posture (& 13

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• Being On Time: 17 Tips To Be On Time

• Meditation: 10 Reasons You Should Meditate | How To

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• Manage Emails Effectively: 11 Simple Tips To Effective

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• Run Barefoot: 10 Reasons You Should Start Running

Barefoot

• Weight Loss: 25 Of My Best Weight Loss Tips

• 8 Habits of Highly Productive People • Become the Master of Your Time • Put First Things First • 50 Ways To Boost Your Productivity • Why We Have Slumps And How To Get Out Of Them • Declutter Your Home in 8 Easy-to-follow Steps • Law of Diminishing Returns • How To Overcome Procrastination (5-part series)• Self Discipline is Overrated • 22 Useful Freeware You Will Definitely Find Handy • The Best Productivity System There Is • Achieve More With Less In Life Using 80/20 Principle (3-part

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• You are the Average of the 5 People You Spend the Most Time With

• Why I Parted Ways With My Best Friend of 10 Years • How To Move On From Relationships (5-part series)• How To Improve Your Relationship with Your Parents (4-part

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Guide

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• Emotional Eating: How To Stop Emotional Eating (6-part

series)

• Better Oral Care: How To Attain Healthier Gums and Teeth –

A Simple but Important Guide

Emotional Mastery

• Are You Emotionally Generous? • 55 Tips to Manage Work Stress • How To Overcome Fear (3-part series)• Do You Dread Growing Older? • Materialism Breeds Unhappiness • How To Deal With Disappointment (4-part series)• How To Be The Most Confident Person In The World

Successful Business Interview Series

1. Salad Stop! – Healthy Meal Alternative for Modern People 2. Delcie’s Desserts – Delicious, Healthy Vegan Delights 3. Udders – Artisan Ice Cream 4. Citrusox – Trendy Legwear 5. Dann’s Daily Cafe – Wholesome Delights 6. Millionaire Entrepreneur Derek Sivers of CD Baby Fame 7. Groupon SG – Acquired for $24 Million in Less than 1 Year

Million Dollar Tip Series

1. Money is Value

2. Leverage on Your Current Skills

3. Address a Need

4. Scale Up Your Work

Passion & Dreams

• Passion or Money? • Your Message and Your Medium • The Howling Dog Story • Pursuing Your Passion With No Money • Overcome Fear Of Loss And Pursue Your Dreams • Passion Paycheck

Inspiration & Motivation

• 101 Most Inspiring Quotes : Vol 1 | Vol 2 | Vol 3 | Vol 4 • 10 Powerful & Inspiring Graduation Speeches of All Time • 15 Beautiful Inspirational Wallpapers For Your Desktop • 15 Amazing Commercials to Inspire the Greatness in You • 25 Most Inspirational Songs of All Time • Inspiring Movies with Important Life Lessons To Learn • 8 Personal Development Lessons To Learn From Inception • 101 Things To Do Before You Die • 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself in Life

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