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
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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 towards 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
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.” - Celestine Chua
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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” - Anonymous
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
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 .” – Anonymous
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 seesthe 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 becausewe do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
14. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Anonymous
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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
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 doit 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”.”
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
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, just get rid of it.” – Unknown
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.” – Anonymous
40. “One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mill
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.” - Celestine 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 15 of 30DLBL – 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 18 of 30DLBL – An Act 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.” – Anonymous
3. “You may be one person in this world, but to one person you may mean the world.” - Anonymous
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.” - Anonymous
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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; leadershipdetermines 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 andbecome 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 andbecome 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
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 higherconsciousness.” – Celestine Chua ( 15 Ways To Raise Your Consciousness – Exclusive article 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 thinking about people you don’t like.” – Celestine Chua
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.” – Anonymous
23. “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” – Anonymous
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
Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
2. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
3. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matterscompared to what lies within us.
5. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
6. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
7. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”
8. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
9. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
10. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes
11. Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soulI feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
12. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
13. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes
14. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
15. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
16. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
17. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
18. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
19. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
20. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts..
Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain
21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
22. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
23. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’stime to pause and reflect.
24. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Robert Frost Inspirational Quotes
26. The best way out is always through.
27. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventuallyget to be boss and work twelve hours a day
28. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
29. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
30. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Inspirational Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
31. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
32. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
33. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
34. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute ofthe strong.”
35. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
36. Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
37. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
38. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems”
39. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Quotes
40. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty ofthe flower.
41. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
42. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
43. If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
44. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it,dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
45. If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse otherswho are not strong enough for you. …Everyone says, “Woe unto you people!!” Who says, “Woe unto me that I cannot helpyou?” The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!
46. Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
47. The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.
Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes
48. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
49. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
50. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle
51. Hope is a waking dream.
52. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Voltaire Quotes
53. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
54. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
55. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Michael Jordan Inspirational Quotes
56. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
57. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman
58. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Anonymous
59. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ford
60. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
61. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
62. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Goethe
63. You can get everything in life you want if you will just helpenough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
64. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
Truman Capote Inspirational Quotes
65. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
66. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision isnightmare.
Japanese Proverb
67. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
68. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer
69. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Unknown
70. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
71. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Unknown
72. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Unknown
73. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Stanford
74. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
75. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
76. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
77. In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar
78. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
79. If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed downhill.
Unknown
80. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
81. Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
82. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
83. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
84. The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a manyou can.
Margo Kaufman
85. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan
86. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
John Cage
87. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
88. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you cando.
John Wooden
89. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
90. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
91. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
92. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney Harris
93. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Peter Drucker.
94. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster’s Law
95. We see things not as they are, but as we are.
H. M. Tomlinson
96. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
97. There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morleys.
98. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
99. If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud
100. Watching television is like taking black
