100 Highly Inspirational Quotes from Books
Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
you almost always receive advance warnings—in the form of telltale signs, comments from others, gut instinct, or intuition—that alert you to the impending danger and give you time to prevent the unwanted outcome.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If your company downsizes you out of a job, suddenly the chances are good that you’ll find your dream job with more opportunity at much better pay.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Be careful what you study and learn, because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your head. For example, if you study cooking, you then tend to cook. You become a cook. If you don't want to be a cook anymore,then you need to study something else.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to take 100% responsibility for your life as well. That means giving up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can’t and why you haven’t up until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Do not take so seriously people’s promises or their ardor in wanting to help you. If they come through, so much the better, but be prepared for the more frequent change of heart. Rely upon yourself to get things done and you will not be disappointed.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Money is a powerful force. Unfortunately, people use the power of money against them. If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you’re 40, you don’t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you’re 60, you realize nobody’s been thinking about you at all.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Love always requires courage and involves risk.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives.
There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables.. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Know a little about a lot.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence. Some are more affected than others.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
All that should concern you in the early stages of your career is acquiring practical knowledge in the most efficient manner possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Self-discipline is self-caring.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Mingle with as many different types of people as possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Some people spend their whole lives waiting for the perfect time to do something. There’s rarely a “perfect” time to do anything. What is important is to just get started. Get into the game. Get on the playing field.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.
I will persist until I succeed.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Start with the end in mind.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. In this matter I will always remain as a child, for only as a child am I given the ability to look up to others; and so long as I look up to another I will never grow too long for my cot.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
To achieve a big goal, you are going to have to become a bigger person.
You are going to have to develop new skills, new attitudes, and new capabilities.
You are going to have to stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be stretched forever.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The world doesn’t pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The only person I know, is the person I want to be.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
It is really hard to sell books and tapes that teach the necessity of lots of hard work, living on less than you make, getting out of debt, and living on a plan, but I’m trying—because it’s the only way that will work.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Don’t even consider keeping up with the Joneses.
THEY’RE BROKE!
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Ninety percent of solving a problem is realizing there is one.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Four words I will train myself to say until they become a habit so strong that immediately they will appear in my mind whenever good humor threatens to depart from me. These words, passed down from the ancients, will carry me through every adversity and maintain my life in
balance. These four words are: This too shall pass.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
I have found that the one thing that seems to separate winners from losers more than anything else is that winners take action.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
You cannot have everything in the present. The road to mastery requires patience. You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road, when you will reap the rewards of your efforts. The process of getting there, however, is full of challenges and pleasures.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Money, cars, houses, boats, attractive spouses, power, and fame can all be taken away—sometimes in the blink ofan eye. But what can never be taken away is who you have become in the process of achieving your goal.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If you want to fly an airplane, I advise taking lessons first. I am always shocked at people who buy stocks or real estate, but never invest in their greatest asset, their mind. Just because you bought a house or two does not make you an expert at real estate.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others is— I will form good habits and become their slave.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don't play to win.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
You possess a kind of inner force that seeks to guide you toward your Life’s Task—what you are meant to accomplish in the time that you have to live.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
In addition to being good learners, sellers and marketers, we need to be good teachers as well as good students. To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive. In cases of financial or professional struggle, there is often a lack of giving and receiving. I know many people who are poor because they are neither good students nor good teachers.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Simply get started, make mistakes, listen to the feedback, correct,and keep moving forward toward the goal. Every experience will yield up more useful information that you can apply the next time.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
It is better to dedicate two or three hours of intense focus to a skill than to spend eight hours of diffused concentration on it. You want to be as immediately present to what you are doing as possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences—making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings, or risking their anger. And yet, when we don’t tell the truth, and others don’t tell us the truth, we can’t deal with matters from a basis in reality. We’ve all heard the phrase that “the truth will set you free.” And it will.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
All the successful people I know have been willing to take a chance—a leap of faith—even though they were afraid. Sometimes they were terrified, but they knew if they didn’t act, the opportunity would pass them by.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Your brain is designed to solve any problem and reach any goal that you give it.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Energy, thrift, and diligence are how wealth is built, not dumb luck.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
In the real world outside of academics, something more than just grades is required.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
No job is beneath you.
You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
you almost always receive advance warnings—in the form of telltale signs, comments from others, gut instinct, or intuition—that alert you to the impending danger and give you time to prevent the unwanted outcome.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If your company downsizes you out of a job, suddenly the chances are good that you’ll find your dream job with more opportunity at much better pay.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Be careful what you study and learn, because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your head. For example, if you study cooking, you then tend to cook. You become a cook. If you don't want to be a cook anymore,then you need to study something else.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to take 100% responsibility for your life as well. That means giving up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can’t and why you haven’t up until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Do not take so seriously people’s promises or their ardor in wanting to help you. If they come through, so much the better, but be prepared for the more frequent change of heart. Rely upon yourself to get things done and you will not be disappointed.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Money is a powerful force. Unfortunately, people use the power of money against them. If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you’re 40, you don’t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you’re 60, you realize nobody’s been thinking about you at all.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Love always requires courage and involves risk.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives.
There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables.. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Know a little about a lot.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence. Some are more affected than others.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
All that should concern you in the early stages of your career is acquiring practical knowledge in the most efficient manner possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Self-discipline is self-caring.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Mingle with as many different types of people as possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Some people spend their whole lives waiting for the perfect time to do something. There’s rarely a “perfect” time to do anything. What is important is to just get started. Get into the game. Get on the playing field.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.
I will persist until I succeed.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Start with the end in mind.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. In this matter I will always remain as a child, for only as a child am I given the ability to look up to others; and so long as I look up to another I will never grow too long for my cot.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
To achieve a big goal, you are going to have to become a bigger person.
You are going to have to develop new skills, new attitudes, and new capabilities.
You are going to have to stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be stretched forever.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The world doesn’t pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The only person I know, is the person I want to be.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
It is really hard to sell books and tapes that teach the necessity of lots of hard work, living on less than you make, getting out of debt, and living on a plan, but I’m trying—because it’s the only way that will work.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Don’t even consider keeping up with the Joneses.
THEY’RE BROKE!
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Ninety percent of solving a problem is realizing there is one.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
Four words I will train myself to say until they become a habit so strong that immediately they will appear in my mind whenever good humor threatens to depart from me. These words, passed down from the ancients, will carry me through every adversity and maintain my life in
balance. These four words are: This too shall pass.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
I have found that the one thing that seems to separate winners from losers more than anything else is that winners take action.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
You cannot have everything in the present. The road to mastery requires patience. You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road, when you will reap the rewards of your efforts. The process of getting there, however, is full of challenges and pleasures.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
Money, cars, houses, boats, attractive spouses, power, and fame can all be taken away—sometimes in the blink ofan eye. But what can never be taken away is who you have become in the process of achieving your goal.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
If you want to fly an airplane, I advise taking lessons first. I am always shocked at people who buy stocks or real estate, but never invest in their greatest asset, their mind. Just because you bought a house or two does not make you an expert at real estate.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others is— I will form good habits and become their slave.
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don't play to win.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
You possess a kind of inner force that seeks to guide you toward your Life’s Task—what you are meant to accomplish in the time that you have to live.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
In addition to being good learners, sellers and marketers, we need to be good teachers as well as good students. To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive. In cases of financial or professional struggle, there is often a lack of giving and receiving. I know many people who are poor because they are neither good students nor good teachers.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Simply get started, make mistakes, listen to the feedback, correct,and keep moving forward toward the goal. Every experience will yield up more useful information that you can apply the next time.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
It is better to dedicate two or three hours of intense focus to a skill than to spend eight hours of diffused concentration on it. You want to be as immediately present to what you are doing as possible.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences—making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings, or risking their anger. And yet, when we don’t tell the truth, and others don’t tell us the truth, we can’t deal with matters from a basis in reality. We’ve all heard the phrase that “the truth will set you free.” And it will.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
All the successful people I know have been willing to take a chance—a leap of faith—even though they were afraid. Sometimes they were terrified, but they knew if they didn’t act, the opportunity would pass them by.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Your brain is designed to solve any problem and reach any goal that you give it.
― Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Energy, thrift, and diligence are how wealth is built, not dumb luck.
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover
In the real world outside of academics, something more than just grades is required.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
― Robert Greene, Mastery
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
No job is beneath you.
You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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