Motivational quotes English

Teacher to kid:
If you tell me
where is God ..?
I will reward you
Rs. 100……..?
ans:-Kid smiles
and Reply gently:
I will give you
Millions If you
tell me Where
He is Not…..

Passion and Silence are two powerful energies

Passion makes you mentally Strong

Silence makes you emotionally Strong…

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace. You cannot buy peace; you must know how to manufacture it within, in the stillness of your daily practices in meditation

Stay Away From Anger… It Hurts ….Only You !

If You Are Right Then There is No Need to Get Angry …

And If You Are Wrong Then You Don’t Have Any Right to Get Angry.

Patience With Family is Love …..

Patience With Others is Respect.

Patience With Self is Confidence And Patience With GOD is Faith.

Never Think Hard About The PAST , It Brings Tears…

Don’t Think More About The FUTURE , It Brings Fear…

Live This Moment With A Smile , It Brings Cheer.

Every Test in Our Life Makes Us Bitter Or Better …..

Every Problem Comes To Make Us Or Break Us !

The Choice is Ours Whether We Become Victims Or Victorious.

Beautiful Things Are Not Always Good But Good Things Are Always Beautiful ……

Do You Know Why God Created Gaps between Fingers ? So That Someone , Who is Special To You , Comes And Fills Those Gaps , By Holding Your Hand Forever.

” Happiness ” Keeps You …. Sweet But Being Sweet Brings Happiness.

Share It , With All The Good People

*what is life without a Father ?*
If you want to experience it, then just for a day do all your work only with fingers,without using your *()*Thumb.
You will know the importance of Father.

*Happy Father’s Day* to all the good fathers, potential fathers, fathers working to become better fathers, fathers in Heaven and God, the Father! 🙂
do take care of your Parents

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. Bohdi Sanders, The Secrets of Worldly Wisdom: Your Key to Unlocking Success

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one’s sights and pushing toward the horizon. Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

So can blushing.

But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth. Vera Nazarian

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow

Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero. Amit Kalantri

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. R.S. Guthrie

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Dennis Waitley

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning may be inextricable from emotion. But if a person’s primary motivation in holding a belief is to hue to a positive state of mind, to mitigate feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, or guilt for instance. This is precisely what we mean by phrases like “wishful thinking”, and “self-deception”. Such a person will of necessity be less responsive to valid chains of evidence and argument that run counter to the beliefs he is seeking to maintain. To point out non-epistemic motives in an others view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt on a persons connection to the world as it is. Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Maybe I’m deceiving myself. Perhaps I don’t know him as well as I’d like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?

In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.

Love. Love was what drove him. David Bowles, The Deepest Green

…one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers. Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Love’ is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love. Amit Kalantri

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people. Fennel Hudson, A Writer’s Year – Fennel’s Journal – No. 3

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. Calvin Coolidge

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. Victoria Addino

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going. Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Money is just an idea. Robert T. Kiyosaki

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. rlotte Eriksson

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. Louise Bourgeois

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. Toni Sorenson

The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life! Darrell Yarbrough

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries? Ogwo David Emenike

Start even if you don’t know how. Wendy Tremayne, Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living

The issue isn’t, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don’t matter. Ability doesn’t matter. Need is the only thing that matters. Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion. Mohammed Ali Bapir

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that… Gino Norris

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out. B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first. Kyo Shirodaira, Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning, Vol. 04

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good. Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction. Roopleen

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important. Brandon Sanderson, Elantris (Elantris, #1)

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. Shannon L. Alder

In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won’t see for years, and can’t be sure you’ll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it. Tobias Wolff, In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.Sandra Byrd, Bon Appetit (French Twist #2)

Don’t be afraid to be afraid.
Have fear, and then conquer the
shit out of it. D. Antoinette Foy

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me. Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option

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Forget about willpower. It’s time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You’ve got to want something, and know why you want it, or you’ll end up giving up too easily. Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don’t let them interrupt or alter your song. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The universe doesn’t give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It’s not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief. Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes – that means your [preparation:]. That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you’re going to get found out now, under the bright lights. Joe Frazier

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. Stuart Aken

Perfection is not a destination; it’s a never-ending process…Enjoy! Jim Bouchard, Think Like a Black Belt

Cream always rises to the top…so do good leaders”. John Paul Warren

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity. Bo Bennett

What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don’t want. Kevin Ngo, Let’s Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action

Words of Wisdom (wow): Be Still. Let Go.Flow.Breathe.Believe.Allow.Grow.Align.Be the Light.Be Awake.Be Aware.Anticipate.Participate.Embrace Change.Take that…Chance.Love.You Are Loved.Rise to the Occasion.Fuel your Motivation & make the world become a better place . Pablo

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible! John Paul Warren

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. Homer Rice

Let your playerhaters be your motivators. Alberta Parish

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. Eric Hoffer

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would. Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn’t be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life. Hubert Selby Jr.

I have moments that aren’t too bad, but there’s always something I’m struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation. Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

When you are lonely for a while don’t get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone. Amit Kalantri

I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal. Bill Rodgers

Recognize that throughout this beautiful day,you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

GIVING – Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be. Lisa Washington

…we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. Muriel Barbery

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today. Noel DeJesus

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions. Shannon L. Alder

Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford) Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all – the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don’t waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. William Shakespeare, Othello

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result. Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. Frank Lloyd Wright

Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT. Pablo

Where there is life, there is hope. Alyson Noel, Everlasting (The Immortals, #6)

If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it. Katerina Stoykova Klemer

city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that’s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other’s name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound. Charlotte Eriksson

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43) Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty
and there I make it work. Charlotte Eriksson

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Terimalah kemungkinan akan adanya kesulitan, masalah, dan kesalahan.

Karena, dia yang bersungguh-sungguh bekerja keras, sebetulnya juga sedang bersungguh-sungguh menyediakan kesempatan bagi timbulnya kesalahan.

Karena kesalahan kita butuhkan untuk mencapai hasil yang lebih baik, karena timbulnya kesalahan adalah tanda diperlukannya cara-cara yang lebih baik.
(Mario Teguh – Mistakes are OK-able) Mario Teguh

If I didn’t have Lincoln’s butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by. Jessica Shirvington, Embrace (The Violet Eden Chapters, #1)

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. Amit Kalantri

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today…Name 1 thing that moved you…Name 1 thing that inspired you… Gino Norris

If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness. Ana Kostovska

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all. Nathan W. Morris

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward. Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Zig Ziglar

Rejection is a challenge. Veronica Purcell

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day. Stephen C. Lundin

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets. Randy Gonzales

If you practice hard, you can win every battle. Manny Pacquiao

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. Jerry L. Lewis, What God Can’t Do

كل لحظة من لحظات الحياة تقدم للمسلم فرصة جديدة للعبادة..وهو بدوره يطمح ليجعل من حياته الدنيوية نموذجا للعبادة المستمرة Jeffrey Lang

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.”

Proverbs 1:7 NLT Eddie Johnson

Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love – that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.Bernard Kelvin Clive

The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish. Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it.
If you don’t know what you deserve, you’ll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine! Rob Liano

Never run from the enemy, tackle them. Victoria Addino

While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Go as far as you can see and you will see further. Zig Ziglar

The power of “can’t”: The word “can’t” makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all. Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Who Took My Money?: Why Slow Investors Lose and Fast Money Wins!

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. Teri Hatcher, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions. Amit Kalantri

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. Doe Zantamata

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking. Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose. Daniel Willey

I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. Tim O’Reilly

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Life’s short. Live passionately. Marc A. Pitman

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. Shannon L. Alder

You don’t go walking into the proverbial lion’s den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. Jim Butcher, Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! Marshall McLuhan

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are. Morrie Camhi

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass. Jim Butcher, Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. Zig Ziglar

I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because the rigorous schedule I had made for myself left me exhausted. Looking to not talk to the person next to me and simply endure the flight, I decided to open my newspaper and read about what was happening in the world. As I continued to read, it seemed that everywhere I looked there were stories of injustice, pain, suffering, and people losing hope. Finally, fueled by my tired, irritable state, I became overcome with compassion and frustration for the way things were. I got up and went to the bathroom and broke down.
With tears streaming down my face, I helplessly looked to the sky and yelled to God.
“God, look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God, how could you let this happen? Why don’t you do something?”
Just then, a quiet stillness pacified my heart. A feeling of peace I won’t ever forget engulfed my body.
And, as I looked into my own eyes in the mirror, the answer to my own question came back to me…
“Steve, stop asking God to do something. God already did something, he gave you life. Now YOU do something! Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Curiosity is the engine of achievement. Ken Robinson

You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you. Maxwell Maltz

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. Amit Kalantri

A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Amit Kalant

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power. Louise L. Hay

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…Charlotte Eriksson

Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it’s easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one who didn’t run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in “the long run”
Or as in having “given someone a run for his money”
Or as in “running out of time”
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you’re going to see me run soon and because you’re going to know why I’m running then
You’ll know then
Because I’m not going to tell you nowGil Scott-Heron, Now and Then…

There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. Ray A. Davis

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass. Roman Payne

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. Stephen King, Duma Key

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelsen

Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise. Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, ‘Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!’ Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I’ll tell you that. Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. Shannon L. Alder

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities. Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad. Jack Campbell, Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)

People always ask me
“Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?”
To them I always say

Are you hungry?
Are you thirsty?
Is it a fire that burns you up inside?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming
With that one thing on your mind?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Cause if you want it all
You’ve got to lay it all out on the line. Tim McGraw, Tim McGraw — Live Like You Were Dying: Piano/Vocal/Chords

No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! Tricia Cunningham, The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. Jordan Belfort

Live Long and Prosper.Leonard Nimoy

Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself. Pablo

Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you’ve had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don’t want to do. And if I lose, I’m one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I’m going to win or lose until the last second.

Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The road to success is always under construction

Lily Tomlin

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes–everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!

Audre Lorde

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.

Roman Payne

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

Louise L. Hay

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

Charlotte Eriksson

Gil Scott-Heron, Now and Then…

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Ray A. Davis

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you

Mario Andretti

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

Roman Payne

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Bruce Lee

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Jim Butcher, Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a ‘wanderess.’ Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences – whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Roman Payne, The Wanderess

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do – if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
become as ordinary as they expect you to be.

Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

I said “Somebody should do something about that.” Then I realized I am somebody.

Lily Tomlin

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Amit Kalantri

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

Robin Hood

When you’re following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch

The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Jack Welch

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Terence McKenna

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.

Donald J. Trump

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.

Tricia Cunningham

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Roman Payne

We are not going to die.”

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. “We’re not?”

“No. And do you know why?” He shook his head. “Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I’m too stubborn to die.” I hauled on the shirt even harder. “And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Dr. Seuss

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

Roopleen

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Ernesto Che Guevara

Donald J. Trump

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.

Tricia Cunningham

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Roman Payne

We are not going to die.”

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. “We’re not?”

Jim Butcher, Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Dr. Seuss

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

Roopleen

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Ernesto Che Guevara

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu
Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli
You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch

A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte
You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —General Montgomery
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. —Peter Drucker
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. —Warren Bennis
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. —Brian Tracy
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. —Ken Kesey
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. —Harry S. Truman
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. —Polybius
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. —Rosalynn Carter
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. —Jim Rohn
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. —Sam Walton
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. —Douglas MacArthur
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. —Andrew Carnegie
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —General George Patton
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. —General Colin Powell
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger
He who has great power should use it lightly. —Seneca
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. —Warren Bennis
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. —Herbert Swope
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. —Benjamin Franklin
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. —Nelson Mandela
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. —Vince Lombardi
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. —Abraham Lincoln
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese Proverb
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. —Bill Owens
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. —John J Pershing
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. —Dee Dee Myers
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George Patton
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan

1. A great looking business bag or tote. I remember hearing a stylist telling a group of women in business that “image is everything.” I don’t know if it is everything but, going to a meeting or networking event looking polished and professional is important if you want to be taken seriously as a success-oriented businesswoman.

2. Good books and magazines to support personal and professional growth. I’m an avid reader so I always enjoy receiving books and magazine subscriptions. You can’t go wrong with a subscription to Forbes Magazine or the classic book Think and Grow Rich. If you don’t know which magazine or book to select, there are always gift cards to Amazon, Barnes and Noble or a favorite local bookstore.

3. An organized businesswoman needs up-to-date computer software. It’s important to have good accounting software, powerful anti-virus software and easy to use software for contact management.

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4. An E-Reader is a modern “must” for today’s savvy women in business. The Kindle, the Nook, the iPad and other E-Readers are lightweight enough to carry in a business tote and easy enough to use anywhere. Will an E-Reader ever fully replace holding a physical book in your hand? Maybe not but, portability and the ability to store hundreds of digital books and periodicals are a big draw for many on-the-go businesswomen.

5. Every business owner needs a good external data storage device. As a business owner it is essential to back up your business documents securely and quickly. If you’ve ever lost valuable information during a power outage or if your computer has crashed, you know how important backing up to an external hard drive can be. You can find external hard drives or USB flash drives in most office supply stores.

6. A gift basket overflowing with office supplies. Honestly, I don’t know of any business owner who wouldn’t enjoy receiving a gift basket filled with basic office supplies. Pen, paper, desk calendar, file folders, motivational mouse pad, stamps and mailing supplies, notepads, printer cartridges, etc.

7. A good paper shredder is a must! This isn’t a very high tech or glamorous item but it is definitely a necessity when it comes to guarding against identity theft. With identity theft an ongoing issue, it is vital to keep confidential information secure and private.

8. A fireproof file cabinet or safe will give a business owner peace of mind. Here’s another practical item for security. The purpose of a fireproof safe is to keep those important papers and valuables safe from fire and water damage. There are many different fireproof safes and file cabinets on the market that will serve the needs of most small business owners.

9. A label maker makes a great time management gift. What better way to stay organized and save time than to have files, storage containers and other items labeled so they can be identified and found easily. Label makers come in various sizes and price ranges and from a small handheld to a more sophisticated desktop unit.

Tips For Growing Your Business

In order to have a successful business, practice these things. If your business strategy is lacking in a particular area, its time to fix it. These are seven tips to grow your business.

1) Be Hands-On And Meticulous

In order to grow your business, the business owner needs to be there all the time and hands on, like a doctor.

A business owner can never be afraid to do the small tasks. He or she should pitch in and straighten up boxes or pick up things. Small things do get noticed, so attention to detail is very important.”

2) Show Your Passion

Selling is a transfer of enthusiasm. Business owners need to show their enthusiasm for their product or service, as well as for their customers.

Besides showing passion, business owners need to be optimistic. In business, there are all kinds of problems. You have to look for the good in every situation and look for the lesson in everything that goes wrong.

3) Focus On The Customer

The purpose of business is not to make a profit. It’s to create and keep a customer. You want them to come the first time, then come again and finally bring their friends.

How you are doing is directly related to how many satisfied customers you have. To increase customer satisfaction, you have to listen to your customers and be involved in their buying experience.

4) Become More Competitive

Unless you have an exclusive monopoly, competition is everything and differentiation is the key to successful selling. You can’t be a ‘me-too’ company.

You must have a competitive advantage. If you don’t have one, create one.

It all comes down to your USP or unique selling proposition. This is what makes you better than your competitors. It can be your location, your product, but often it’s you. When customers think of a business, they often think of the people who make up that business and especially the owner.

5) Mind The Money

In putting together a business strategy, business owners should always focus on sales, revenues and cash flow, and to know every day how much money is being made. Focus on your net profit, not your gross profit. This gives you a more realistic view of how the business is doing.

Look to ‘idealize your business.’ Think about what your perfect business would look like, and figure out what you need to do to create it.

6) Be The Best

Successful business owners are always striving for excellence. They want to be the best at what they do. Being the best is about being in constant motion, working harder and faster. Being the best is also about wanting to learn more.

7) Measure Your Success

Everyone defines success differently. The best measure of success: Number one, you should enjoy what you do. That’s the ultimate success. Next, you should consistently hit your numbers, it shows that you know what you’re doing. Lastly, you should love your product or service, and you should love your customers. If you do all these, you can’t help but be successful.

Conclusion

All of these tips to growing a successful business are important. Having your own business is challenging and rewarding. It is important to plan and set your goals in the long term.

1. “Build something you believe in — because that’s the first step to building a great brand.”

Just like Goldman and Nalebuff, I learned a powerful lesson in tenacious passion from 30 plus years of entrepreneurship. When you’re all alone, sitting in a dark room wondering why your business is failing, there is only one true thing to power you forward — you believe in your purpose.

2. “Don’t aim for 10% improvement. Make it radically better and different.”

Yes — in today’s society we collectively create amazing products, services and companies through entrepreneurship. World changing at times and Honest Tea was radically different when first introduced. But, if you look around, we also live in the land of ‘me-too’ businesses. Don’t fall for it. Dig deep and decide right now to build something radically different and radically better.

3. “Prepare to be copied. Don’t start unless you’ll survive imitation.”

If your idea is truly radical and takes off, you can count the minutes before the copy-cats arrive. How will you survive competition from the big 800-pound gorillas on the block? Or even from the upstart little guys? Your key is a system of ‘continuous innovation’. Although you could also take the road of Honest Tea — make friends with one of the gorillas and let them buy you out. (Coca-Cola Company acquired Honest Tea in 2011.)

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4. “Build up reserves of money and energy for bad luck and mistakes.”

Great advice — but sometimes extremely difficult to do. What startup or growth company has reserves of cash sitting around? But Goldman and Nalebuff make a good point — run as lean as you possibly can and do not waste money or energy. You will endure mistakes and bad luck along the way, so having a good war chest full of capital and energy can help handle it.

5. “Never, ever give up control — until you sell.”

Some high-impact entrepreneurs will readily give up control in exchange for the lure of high-growth through venture capital — but I am not one of them. Relinquish control and you risk losing the culture and vision of the company you set out to build. Even though Honest Tea raised investment capital from the beginning, the co-founders always remained in the driver’s seat. (And yes — Goldman can still drive his vision as CEO of Honest Tea, but his boss at Coca-Cola can say ‘no’ at anytime. Thus, true control is forever gone.)

6. “Don’t compromise on the big things — compromise on everything else.”

Vision. Purpose. Core values. Write these things in stone and never budge. But flexibility in the value propositions, products and services you build to execute your purpose is vastly important. Many entrepreneurs I see fail to ‘bend to the market’ by adapting to what their customer’s are telling them.

7. “Figure out how to achieve your goals on a tiny budget — then cut that number in half.”

Yes — you’ve heard it said before — it will cost twice as much, and take twice as long as you think. My recommendation is you apply the principles of lean to your business from day one. No fancy offices. No fancy full color brochures. Your goal is to stay alive until you can nail your secret formula for success. Blowing the budget will insure nothing but a quick death.

8. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Is it ever. Building a business is neither for the faint of heart or the speed demon. Climbing Mt. Everest is not done in 3 easy steps: 1.) decide you want to do it, 2.) fly to Nepal with zero preparation, 3.) sprint straight up the mountain in 12 easy minutes. Build systems for the long-haul and focus on small-connected steps. (It takes 26,364 steps of 7″ each to climb Mt. Everest, and that’s starting from half way up at Basecamp.)

9. “Take care of your family, personal and spiritual health — if you aren’t laughing or smiling on a regular basis, recalibrate.”

Imagine the path to a wildly successful business: founder working at a feverish pitch for 18 hours each day, for at least 5 years straight. True? No, it’s not. In my private conversation with Goldman, he flat-out told me two reasons he made it through the rough years: first — he believed in his purpose, second — his drive for personal balance. The notion we need to kill our family relationships, personal health or level of sanity to build our own business is sadly misaligned. Take it from me — don’t go there.

10. “Build the enterprise and the brand as if you’ll own them forever.”

Will you sell your business someday? Maybe. Should that be the sole reason you are building it? Probably not. When you start and build a business based on passion and purpose, with a burning desire to solve the pain of your customer through the deliverance of monetizable value, you build a far more valuable enterprise. Those in it for the short-term quick buck rarely succeed.

Plaster these 10 rules from Goldman and Nalebuff to your mirror, live by them everyday of your life as an entrepreneur and you might end up as successful as they. Honest.

10 Great Tips for Success in Both Life and Business

Sometimes what helps us to be successful in our professional lives is not such a great idea in our personal lives — competition is a quality that comes to mind. At the same time, we all have a limited amount of time each day to do the things that we want to do.

So for the sake of saving time and energy, I’m sharing a list of tips that will help you be successful in both life and in business.

1. Add Value
No matter what you do and where you go, you can’t go wrong with adding value. Simply put value is anything that people are willing to pay for. In your professional life, the more value you can offer the more money you can make. In your personal life, more value translates to closer relationships and strong personal growth. The best way to add value is to find the intersection between what people are willing to pay for and what service or product you can offer that is aligned with your values, strengths and goals.

How are you adding value to your employers and loved ones today? What can you do to increase your ability to add value?

2. Follow Your Passion
Reading numerous biographies on great people and from my own personal observations and encounters, I’ve realized that those who achieve greatness professional and personally follow their passion. The reason why great people are few and far in-between is because most people don’t even know what their passion is. For those that do figure out their passion, most of them don’t follow their passion consistently. This is one of the main reasons why people don’t reach their goals.

Do you know what your passion is? If not, what are you going to do to find out? If you do know what you passion is, are you following it?

3. Be Extraordinary
If you do the same thing as everyone else, it’s hard to be successful. It is important to find the edge and then push past it. That is how you become noticed and get what you want. Whether it is money, meaningful relationships and/or a sense of personal accomplishment, the extraordinary person attracts them all.

How are you extraordinary? If you feel just ordinary, what are you going to do to become extraordinary? For those who don’t know, you may want to check out articles on my blog and also How to go from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

4. Start Now
There are many factors that go into become a success in both your professional and personal life but the one factor that is required is taking action. Most people miss out on reaching their full potential because they never start. They are always preparing, planning and waiting for the best time to start. If I waited until I was ready, I would not have a coaching practice, a website, a blog, a workshop, etc. The stars rarely align and you will never be completely ready so just start now and adjust along the way.

Are you waiting for something before you start? What is your planning to doing ratio? What’s really the worse thing that can happen if you got started right now? If you are someone that’s just been waiting, stop reading this post and get started on what you have been wanting to do. This article will still be here when you get back.

5. Hunt for Good Mentors
People who “make it” usually credit their success to a mentor or a group of mentors who really helped guide them to get to where they are. Mentors have gone down the road that you want to travel and can guide you to get to your destination faster than if you went at it alone. If you want to be healthy, you would find a mentor who is already healthy. If you want to be rich, then you have to find someone who is already rich. What surprises me is how rarely people engage in mentoring relationships and those who do usually find mentors in only one aspect of their lives. If you want to be successful, be active about finding mentors that will help you achieve what you want. Jeff Goins has a nice short article on finding mentors.

Do you have a mentor in your life now? If not, ask yourself what barriers are preventing you from finding or establishing a mentoring relationship? If you do have a mentor, do you have one for the different aspects of your life (financial, health, professional, personal, spiritual, relationships, parenting etc.)?

6. Build a Support Group
While mentors serve as a guide with whom you review your past actions and plan your next steps, a support group are your companions that help you with during the actual execution of your plan. This may be in the form of a mastermind group or accountability partner where you keep each other accountable for your goals and to help each other deal with situations that may arise while you are on your journeys. It is extremely helpful to have someone you know that is willing to listen to your frustrations and self doubt and to encourage you and remind you of how far you’ve already come.

Who is in your support group?

7. Personally Know Your Finances
Numbers scare a lot of people. Start talking about assets, liabilities and net worth and people’s eyes just glaze over. If you are one of these people who run away from numbers, please stop running because you are hurting yourself. If you want to be financially independent, you need to know how to keep score. If you have your own business or want to successfully invest, finances tell you how well you are doing and reveal the health of a business. If you don’t understand finances, you have to learn. It’s easy once you get over the limiting belief that you are no good at numbers. For those interested in learning more, you may want to check out these personal finance resources.

Do you know you net worth? If you are bad at numbers, what specifically makes you believe that? How can you improve your financial intelligence?

8. Get Help
I have a tendency to try to do everything myself and in some ways it is good and in many ways it is bad. It is important to know and understand all aspects of your life and business but that does not mean having to do all the tasks involved in maximizing your potential in those areas. It is true that we can always learn new things and become competent in them but what is also true is that we are only given 24 hours each day and to live full lives, it is more effective to do what we do best and to outsource tasks that we’re not good at to people who excel at them. Delegating effectively takes trust and the ability to clearly communicate what you want. For those that want to outsource, Elance is a nice way to find some quality freelancers.

How are you spending your time? Is it doing things you are awesome at? If not, what are you doing that you can outsource or delegate so you can devote more time doing what you’re great at? What’s stopping you from outsourcing or delegating?

9. Learn Sales
Many people cringe when they hear the word sales. “I would never be in sales, that’s a sleazy job.” It is exactly this type of thinking that stops people from being their best. Sales is nothing more than persuading someone of something. When you are looking to get a date, you are selling. When you are interviewing for a job, you are selling. When you are trying to persuade your spouse or kids to go to Europe for your family vacation, you are selling. In a professional setting, sales is paramount and the lifeline for any business. If you want to get the most out of life and business, learn the skills for effective selling. I am beginning a series of blog posts on How to Sell on my blog and you can learn from other successful sales trainers by reading material from Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracey and Og Mandino.

When you hear “sales”, what associations come to mind? Are they positive or negative? Do you know the how to sell effectively? If not, how do you plan to learn?

10. Be Resilient
Things rarely work out the way you planned and there will always be distractions and stumbling blocks that you have to deal with when you are on your road to success. The key point to remember is to persist and to develop the courage to move on even when everyone around you is telling you it is ok to give up. This does not mean stubbornly holding on to your original plan but rather continuing to pursue your goal as long as the reasons for doing so is still valid (Make sure you know the “Why” of what you want). When everything seems to be going wrong, keep in mind that “the road to success is paved with a thousand failures” so each failure actually brings you closer to where you want to be. If you have trouble being resilient, check out the 6 Effective Ways to Be Persistent.

How often to you quit because things got tough? Would you descrive yourself as an unshakeable optimist? Do you view problems as opportunities or warning signs? How do you view failure and are you making sure that you don’t make the one mistake people make when learning from their mistakes?

This is not an exhaustive list, but it does provide a good starting point. I would love to hear what tips you have found especially useful in both life and business in the comments section.

1. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

2. A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

3. All suffering of mankind is produced by attachment to a previous condition of existence.

4. A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

5. A man is what he thinks all day long.

6. A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.

7. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

8. Being humble doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself; it means thinking less about yourself. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

9. Be not afraid of life. Believe that it is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.

10. Confidence is contextual. Self-esteem expands across all contexts of your life. When you raise your self-esteem, you will feel a higher level of confidence in all areas of your life.

11. Courage in danger is half the battle.

12. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

13. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

14. Customers like to feel that they are buying – not being sold.

15. Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

16. Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain.

17. Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.

18. Every man wants to change the world. Only the best wants to change himself.

19. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

20. Give yourself permission to fail and you give yourself permission to succeed in life.

21. God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days. Why should you and I?

22. Great acts are performed not through strength but by perseverance.

23. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

24. Happiness is variable to different people.

25. Happiness is when what you think and what you say and what you do are in harmony

26. He that complies against his will is of his opinion still.

27. He who asks is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t ask is a fool for life.

28. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

29. I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

30. I cannot hear what you are saying to me because you are shouting at me.

31. If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right.

32. If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I do not have it at the beginning.

33. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to understand the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as your own.

34. If we did all the things we were capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

35. If you don’t own it, you won’t take care of it.

36. If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more.

37. If you practice the habits of success, you’ll make success a habit.

38. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

39. I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

40. I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand

41. I learned it is not what happens to you that matters; it is what you do about it that really matters.

42. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

43. In trying to steal from others, they are robbing themselves of peace, harmony, faith, honesty, integrity, goodwill, and confidence.

44. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

45. It has no substitute and it is well to remember that a “quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.

46. It is better to see something once for yourself than to hear about it a hundred times.

47. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

48. It is not where you start that counts, but where you choose to finish.

49. It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist.

50. It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

51. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

52. It’s not who you think you are that holds you back but what you think you’re not.

53. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

54. Joy is not in things. It is in us.

55. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

56. Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is superior wisdom.

57. Knowledge is power.

58. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

59. Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space. It’s up to you to fill it.

60. Life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

61. Live while you are alive. Don’t die before you are dead.

62. Making the best of ourselves is the reason we were born, but it requires patience and perseverance.

63. Miracles come to those who do what they can.

64. Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of things that make you unhappy.

65. More people have been hurt by an improper choice of words than by any natural disaster. Choose what you say rather than say what you choose. That is the difference between wisdom and foolishness.

66. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

67. Never tell your best friend anything you wouldn’t want your worst enemy to know!

68. No man would listen to you talk if he didn’t know it was his turn next.

69. No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

70. No matter what happens. I’ll find a way to enjoy life.

71. Now, remember, getting what you want will not change your life at the Being level, so don’t let what you have determine who you are otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

72. Once I did bad and that I heard ever/Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

73. Once you stop trying to control your past and just let it go, you’ll find the past no longer has control over you.

74. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

75. Open your mouth only when you have something positive and constructive to say.

76. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

77. Peace in a thatched hut—that is happiness.

78. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

79. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

80. People with humility don’t think less of themselves, they think of themselves less.

81. Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

82. Proof is always in the action, not the words. Actions say what you believe and the kind of person you are much more than your words.

83. Remember, you cannot fail with your decision, you can only learn.

84. Respect yourself and others will respect you.

85. She often said she’d never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

86. So many get to the end of their lives wondering what they could have been.

87. Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

88. Success and happiness go hand in hand. Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get!

89. Success comes from taking an action, not from a positive outcome. Failure comes through hesitation, not a negative outcome.

90. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

91. Success represents the one percent of your work which results only from the 99 percent that is called failure.

92. Sympathy is, “I understand how you feel.” Empathy is, “I feel how you feel.”

93. Ten percent of life is made up of what happens to you – the other 90 percent is how you respond to what happens to you.

94. The difference between people is very small, but that very small difference is very big indeed!

95. The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

96. The first idiot to come along is able to criticise, condemn and complain; that’s exactly what all idiots so anyway.

97. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposed to remove.

98. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.

99. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind.

100. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

101. The old is always old; the new is always young.

102. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. –Theodore Roosevelt

103. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

104. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

105. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

106. The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. It you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame.

107. The person who has no time for exercise must make time for illness.

108. The problem is not knowing what to do; it’s doing it.

109. The problem with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.

110. The purpose of life is a life of purpose and a life of purpose is created through constant service to those around us.

111. The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his field of endeavor.

112. The real test of a person’s character is what he would or would not do if he knew he would never be found out.

113. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

114. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility lies in being superior to your previous self.

115. There is so much that is good in the worst of us and so much that is bad in the best of us.

116. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

117. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

118. The secret to making people like you is showing how much you like them!

119. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.

120. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.

121. The tiny acorn will one day grow into a mighty oak, but not overnight

122. The very best way to predict the future is to create it.

123. The world belongs to the optimists, pessimists are only spectators.

124. The worst form of loneliness is not being comfortable with yourself.

125. They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

126. They can because they think they can.

127. Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

128. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

129. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

130. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

131. We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

132. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

133. We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

134. We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

135. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

136. We don’t laugh because we are happy, we are happy because we laugh.

137. We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes.

138. What drives our behaviour is instinctive reaction to pain or pleasure, not intellectual calculations.

139. What is money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do.

140. What lies behind us and what lies in front of us pales in comparison to what lies within us.

141. What this really tells us is that success is subjective. It can mean different things to different people.

142. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

143. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

144. You alone can do it, but you cannot do it alone.

145. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.

146. You can see a lot by observing.

147. You can’t really be strong until you see the funny side to things.

148. Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

149. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others.

150. Your worth doesn’t depend on being better than others, so why start the comparison gamble?

Albert Schweitzer: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Aldous Huxley: “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

Andre Gide: “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

Ben Franklin: “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Benjamin Franklin: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.“

Bertrand Russell: “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

Bismarck: “Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience.”

Booker T. Washington: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

Chinese Proverbs:
“The sage does not care to hoard. The more he uses for the benefit of others, the more he possesses himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has of his own.”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
“Peace in a thatched hut—that is happiness.”
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.”

Chuck Palahniuk: “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

Confucius:
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
“The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.”
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
“To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know, that is the real wisdom.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.”
“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness.”
“When you are labouring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.”
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
“It is easier for a civilized person to behave as a savage than for a savage to behave as a civilized person.”

Douglas Adams: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Eleanor Roosevelt: “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.”

George Bernard Shaw: “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter the least.”

I Ching: “You should exercise total discipline over your thought patterns. Cultivate only productive attitudes . . . You are ultimately the product of everything you put into your mind and body.”

Jean-Luc Picard: “Things are only impossible until they are not.”

Jewish (ancient widsom):
“A man does not sin unless there is something in it for him.
“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”

John F. Kennedy (President): “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

John Wayne: “Life is tough. It is tougher if you are stupid.”

Jonathon Swift: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him”

Maria Robinson: “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Marie Sklodowska Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

Mark Twain:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

Mencken, H. L: “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

Napoleon Hill: “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Patton: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

Russian proverb: “Once a word flies out, you cannot catch it.”

Seneca: “Religion is considered by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

Tacitus: “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.”

Thomas Jefferson:
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“Question with boldness even the existence of God.”

Thoreau: “It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you busy about?”

Unknown:
“A friend’s eye is a good mirror.”
“A guest should be blind in another man’s house.”
“A foolish woman knows a foolish man’s faults.”
“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming.”

Viktor Frankl: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Voltaire: “Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”

William James: “We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”

Winston Churchill:
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

1.“Actionis the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso2.“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn3.“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh4.“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Celestine Chua5.“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 Chua6.“It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” ~ Vaclav Havel7.“The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale8.“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” – Stevie Wonder9.“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.” ~ Andrew Carnegie10.“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson11.“It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you do that makes the difference.” – Celestine Chua12.“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 Roberts13.“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ~ Tony Robbins14.“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.” – BrianJ15.“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well!” – Unknown16.“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” – Mark Twain17.“The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein18.“When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.” – Angel19.“The best way to predict your future is tocreate it.” – Abraham Lincoln20.“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers21.“There is no starting or stopping.Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior22.“If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown23.You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. – Paulo Coelho24.Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever goingto come out of it.” – Esther & JerryHicks25.“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something aboutit.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo26.“Commitment leads to action. Actionbrings your dream closer.” ~ Marcia Wieder27.“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.” – Yoda29.“A journey of a thousand miles mustbegin with a single step.” – Lao Tze30.“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#Go back to topInspirational Quotes on Planning1.“He who fails toplan, plans to fail.” ~Unknown2.“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne3.“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more importantto have a planor goal.” – Zig Ziglar4.“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 Rohn5.“Make no small plansfor they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli#Go back to topInspirational Quotes on Persistence1.“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard2.“The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” –Mark Twain3.“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.” – Michelangelo4.“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 Ziglar5.“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt6.“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 andkeep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about howhard 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’reworth 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 Balboa7.“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” -Tobias Wolff8.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius9.“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 Carnegie10.“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 Coolidge11.“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” ~Chinese Proverb
#Inspirational 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 ityou can never get it back.” ~ Harvey MacKay2.“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 soI strive to make them better.” ~ HenryDavid Thoreau4.“You don’t get paid for the hour. Youget paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn5.“Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until youwork on the right things.” – Peter Drucker6.“The key is not to prioritize what’s onyour schedule, but toschedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey7.“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” ~ Dale Carnegie8.“Ask yourself thisquestion: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson9.“It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry ford
Inspirational 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.” ~ Unknown2.“Do what you loveand themoney will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar3.“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 Koch4.“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#Go back to topInspirational Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery1.“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.” ~Souza2.“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin3.“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” ~ Oprah Winfrey4.“Peacecomes fromwithin. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha5.“Happiness is not a station you arriveat, but a method of traveling.”~Margaret Runbeck6.“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 Schweitzer7.“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson8.“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~ Mildred Barthel9.“If things depress you, it’s because you allow yourself to be affected byit. 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 todo.” – Celestine Chua10.“People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.” ~ Unknown11.“Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.” John Powers12.“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” Ralph Waldo Emerson13.“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson14.“When it is dark enough, you can seethe stars.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson15.“To forgive is toset a prisoner freeand discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis Smedes16.“Our sorrows and wounds are healedonly when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha17.“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” ~G.K. Chesterton18.“When Ilet goof what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu19.“Discontent is the first necessity ofprogress.” -Thomas A. Edison20.“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard21.“Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.” – Celestine Chua22.“To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.” – Celestine Chua23.No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt24.“Rather than waste time and energyworrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whateveris causing the worry.” – Celestine Chua25.“When you are totally atpeacewith yourself, nothing can shake you.” ~ Deepam Chaterjee26.“The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.” ~ Unknown27.“Happiness is an effect of doing what you love, not an end goal to be achieved.” – Celestine Chua28.“The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.” – Wayne Dyer29.“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.” ~ Glenn Turner30.“Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that’s why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream” ~ Unknown31.“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
Inspirational 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 (Day 20 of 30DLBL– Loving 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 mustlive 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 disappointmentwhere there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
8.“Your task is not to seek for love butmerely 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 have the greatest impact.” ~ Unknown
11.“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” ~ Unknown

Your Target Must be
“Simple & Challengeable..”
Your Thoughts, Must be
“Pure & Positive” Then your Life will Always be
“Meaningful & Beautiful..!!

This Msg made my Day 🙂

Do read it properly !!

1. Name the 5 Wealthiest People in the world.

2. Name the Last 5 winners of Ms. Universe.

3. Name the Last 10 People Who won the Nobel prize.

How Did You Do?
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The Point is, None of us Remembers The Headlines of Yesterday,

Even Though These People Must be the Best in Their
Fields

Applause Dies,

Awards Are Tarnished and Achievements Are Forgotten!!

Here’s another quiz:

Let’s see How This Goes:

1. Name 5 Teachers Who Added Your Journey Through School.

2. Name 5 Friends Who Helped You Thru Difficult Times.

3. Name 5 People Who Taught You Something Worthwhile.

4. Name 5 People Who Make’s You Feel Special.

5. Name 5 People You Enjoy Spending Time with.
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Easier…right?

The People Who Make a Difference in ur Life Are NOT the ones with Most Awards and Loads of money.

Life is Full of ordinary People Who Have Made the World a Better Place for You!

Cherish them!

Hold Them.

Perhaps Sometimes its Special to be ordinary…!!!
Have a wonderful day!

Giving the gift of absence to those who do not appreciate your presence is a courageous decision and enhances your self-worth. Think about it. Have a great weekend.

A babyasked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?”

God said, “Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you.”

The child further inquired, “But tell me, here in heaven I don’t have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy.”

God said, “Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel’s love and be very happy.”

Again the small child asked, “And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don’t know the language?”

God said,“Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak.”

“And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?”

God said,“Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray.”

“Who will protect me?”

God said, “Your angel will defend you even if it means risking her life.”

“But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore.”

God said, “Your angel will always talk to you about Meand will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you.”

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, “God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel’sname.”

God said,You will simply call her……

MOM

M- My
O- Only
M- Mentor

Lift a mother’s spirit; send this to every mother you know,no matter how old her child is. Pls do share with all the loving moms…I just did it..

Once a Bird asked a Bee: After constant hard-work, you prepare
honey. But a man comes & steals it. Do you not feel sad ?

Wonderful reply by Bee: Never… Because only thing man can do is to steal ‘my honey’… not the ‘art of making honey’…
In this world, anyone can copy your CREATIONS but no one can copy your TALENT…

“Swami Vivekananda”

No need for looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things achieved.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow— never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Let people say whatever they like , stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, ‘Have faith in this fellow or that fellow’, but, I say, ‘Have faith in yourself first’. that’s the way.

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, “boss” others. Be the servant of all.

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.

Cowards only sin , brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Stop worrying about what might hold you down, and pay attention to why you’re standing up.

Eklavya Kumar

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