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This ebook contains one thousand of the best success quotes, inspirational quotes, food for thought, optimist creed and expressions from inspiring thought leaders to get you started on a positive spirit each day.
Whether you are looking for daily inspiration for your personal life or to inspire your team, A Thousand Ways to be Inspired is your right companion. These carefully selected healthy quotes will keep you in cloud nine and help you through major challenges in your life.
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"Anything in life worth having is worth working for." - Andrew Carnegie Again, this is a clear reminder that there are no shortcuts to any lasting gains. If it’s a college degree you desire, a rewarding relationship, a successful business or career, or to enjoy optimal health, then it’s totally up to you to choose if you’re ready to give what it to takes to achieve those things. If you so desire them, then it’s worth working for.
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"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences." - Jawaharlal Nehru
Courage is not the absence of fear but the acknowledgement that there is something more important. Truth is that you have everything to gain when you act confidently and not give in to fear. On the other hand when you give in to fear, you have little to gain. Oftentimes, the comfort of a mediocre present is often preferred than the adventure of becoming more in the future
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"Success is never ending, failure is never final." - Dr. Robert Schuller
This quote reminds me of the potential capacity of every success to create ripple effects. In other words to replicate itself. Every success tends to replicate itself and lead to more successes when the right principles are applied and followed.
On the other hand, any failure is never final but can serve as a pedestal to achieve something even greater than was initially aimed for, if only we are careful to learn from them, rightly apply the lessons and try a different approach to create the success we desire.
Here’s an interesting observation made by Napoleon Hill in his great book, Think and Grow Rich, “No man is ever whipped, until he QUITS—in his own mind.”
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"I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it." - Ted Turner
Again, another reminder to steer clear of the cynics and naysayers. Make no mistake; a negative attitude is very contagious and you really do not want to catch it by allowing yourself to sit long enough with the cynics and naysayers. Their association does more harm than good to your dreams and goals.
They have the habit of discovering just another reason why it will not work out. My advice: steer clear! Do not even share your plans with them, especially when you’re are at the early stages. They can kill it before it sees the light of day!
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"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." - Emily P. Bissell
A dream will only remain a dream when there is no conscious effort to transform it to become reality. So wake up from your dream and take action! Thank heavens we have the dream, but it is only useless if it is not transmuted into its physical form or reality. The only solution lies in taking conscious action while we enjoy the process!
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
There is a remarkable Iesson I came to understand from the training of race car drivers. And that has to do with focus. During this all important training, race car drivers are taught that their cars will always move in the direction of where they direct their gaze during a race. Which means, if out of fear or any other circumstance, they direct their gaze on the wall then they will move towards the wall and risk crashing. On the other hand, when they keep their gaze fixed on the track, even if they had skidded off the track, they will always find their way back to it.
The same applies to us. When we lay our focus on the obstacles and linger on them, then we risk giving up because the fear of where we are and we where we ought to be, seem to consume us. On the other hand when we keep our gaze fixed on our goals and always keep the desired end results in mind, then even if we had made a mistake or encountered a setback, we will find our way back to achieving them.
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"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it." – John Crowe
A muscle gets stronger, when it is put to use and exercise. Otherwise it remains placid. We cannot take anything away from the positive impact of experiences in our lives. This is what makes us stronger, and all the wiser, to meet with and excel in varying life’s adventures.
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"You will never find time for anything. You must make it." - Charles Buxton
Several things are always vying for a moment of our 24 hours each day. Such things as family, work and associates, leisure, etc. So then how do you give audience to these things; you simply make time for them. Be mindful though of activities that fall into the category of time wasters.
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"Remove failure as an option." - Joan Lunden
As mentioned earlier. Failure is never final but can be used a pedestal to achieve mind-blowing and life-transforming results, when we learn from them, rightly apply the lessons from the failure situations, and try a new approach to create the success we desire.
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"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." - Peter A. Cohen A journey of a thousand miles begin with a step, facing the right direction. As Peter Cohen rightly observed; no one giant step does it. It can only be achieved through a lot of seemingly insignificant little steps and efforts in the seemingly insignificant areas. However, it is rather interesting to note that without the little efforts and contributions of those seemingly insignificant areas, you find that the whole becomes incomplete. Or worse, there will never be a whole.
When a child is born he learns to turn over and then to crawl and then to walk and run. The steps simply can’t be skipped!
It is the sum of the little efforts that creates the giant outcome. Leave out the little steps and you end up chasing shadows.
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It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.” – ROBERT M. PIRSIG
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I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence… the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” – CHARLES DICKENS
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Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
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Success isn’t magic or hocus-pocus, it’s simply learning to focus.
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The life which is unexamined is not worth living – SOCRATES
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When you work, work, and when you play, play, don’t get the two mixed up – JIM ROHN
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There are essentially two things that will make you wiser – the books you read and the people you meet. – CHARLES “TREMENDOUS” JONES
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THE ONE THING THAT SEPARATES WINNERS FROM LOSERS IS, WINNERS TAKE ACTION! – ANTHONY ROBBINS
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Having all the money in the world isn’t much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it – AUTHOR UNKNOWN
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Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life – to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul – LES HEWITT
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If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought – PEACE PILGRIM
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Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever – AUTHOR UNKNOWN
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Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. – STAN SMITH
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NELSON MANDELA IN HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH 1994
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. – STAN SMITH
For almost twenty-six of those years, he was confined to a prison cell because of his outspoken views about apartheid. During this time, Mandela’s confidence must have been tested. It is a tribute to his faith and conviction that he ultimately triumphed and went on to be elected to his country’s highest office.
Carefully read these words spoken by Nelson Mandela at his inaugural speech.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence actually liberates others.
He accepted the challenge and won and so will you win!
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If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask. – W. Clement Stone
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The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit. – Mark Twain
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If I’m ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until I’m down to a size eight! – HENRIETTE MONTEL
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For thins to change you’ve got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change – JIM ROHN
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Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I’ll start living my life the way I want…someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I’ll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad… someday, now that I’m about to retire, I’ll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see…someday. – ED FOREMAN
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Why hesitate?
Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died. – AUTHOR UNKNOWN
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This is the true joy – the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one. – George Bernard Shaw
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I’m not here just to make a living, I’m here to make a difference – HELICE BRIDGES
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To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure
The betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded – RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." – Les Brown
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"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart
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"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." - Mark Twain
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson
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"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi
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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett