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1 The Largest Quotes Collection ebook from the Worlds Most Famous People The world s largest collection of famous quotes all jampacked into one book. Moving and motivational quotes collected from thousands of sources all condensed down to give you the best for the sole purpose of enjoyment and to help change lives for the better. Spaced into unique chapters of different authors, this ebook offers intensive motivational and inspirational sayings and advice to help achieve the desired lifestyle you ve always been longing for. No matter who you are, I guarantee this book will add value to your life. 2010, All Rights Reserved First Edition Famous Quotes Now LLC Written by Daniel Moran

2 TABLE OF CONTENT AUTHOR Tony Robbins..2 Robin Sharma..6 Napoleon Hill..8 Eckhart Tolle 10 Mahatma Gandhi..14 John Wooden 16 Buddha.18 Albert Einstein..21 Mother Theresa.24 Nelson Mandela 26 Bruce Lee.58 Wayne Dyer.60 Dale Carnegie 64 David J Schwartz...67 Muhammad Ali.69 Lao Tzu 71 Dalai Lama..73 Socrates...75 Confucious..77 Deepak Chopra...79 Richard Branson...30 Warren Buffet 32 Jim Rohn 35 Stephen. R. Covey..38 Lance Armstrong 42 Benjamin Franklin..43 Ralph Waldo Emerson 45 Chuck Palniuk.47 Robert Kiyosaki..49 Friedrich Nietzche...51 Winston Churchill 53 William Shakespeare...56 John Lennon 57 1

3 Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. 2

4 If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. In life you need either inspiration or desperation. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area 3

5 of our lives. My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of 4

6 having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. 5

7 Robin Sharma Everything that happens in your life is beautiful "Winners have two types of courage the courage to act and the courage to endure and they never quit regardless of the circumstances. Understanding that they are bigger than their circumstances is what gives them the courage to succeed." "A man is as old he feels, the energy to keep improving keeps them young at heart and provides positive thinking mind body and soul." "Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.." "We receive from life not what we want but who we are". "The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself." "Those who don't make time for exercise will eventually have to make time for illness." "We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh". 6

8 "Wake-up Early, Life is Short, what if today is the last night of my life, so enjoy life to the full." "When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice." "When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." "Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and gave your life governed by chance." 7

9 Napoleon Hill "Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success." "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." "Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. "Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth." "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, 8

10 and you will be drawn toward it." "It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served." "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best." "The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." A goal is a dream with a deadline. Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. 9

11 Eckhart Tolle "The past has no power over the present moment." Instead of asking what do I want from life?, a more powerful question is, what does life want from me? "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." "To love is to recognize yourself in another." "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life." "You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are." "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." "You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level." "Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be." 10

12 "Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death." "Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it." "Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you." "This, too, will pass." "Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind." "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." "Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it." "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from 11

13 the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is." "Being must be felt. It can't be thought." "A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever." "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." "If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without." "Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'." Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you." "Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which 12

14 isn t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth? "What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone." "You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity." If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn t know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream. Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mindstuff. Your life is real. Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. 13

15 Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. You must be the change you want to see in the world. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. Nobody can hurt me without my permission. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. 14

16 Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. 15

17 John Wooden Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? It isn't what you do, but how you do it. It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. 16

18 The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. 17

19 Buddha All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. A jug fills drop by drop. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. 18

20 In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. The mind is everything. What you think you become. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. 19

21 To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. 20

22 Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. 21

23 God always takes the simplest way. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important 22

24 thing is not to stop questioning. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. 23

25 Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. "Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other." "If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive" "Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfil it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." "People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another." "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin" "The poor do not need our sympathy and our pity. The poor need our 24

26 love and compassion" "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love" "If you judge people, you have no time to love them" "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try" 25

27 Nelson Mandela The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. It always seems impossible until its done. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: 26

28 a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my feeling. The brain always dominates, says, as I have pointed out, you have a limited time to stay on Earth. You must try and use that period to transfo Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. 27

29 Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Everybody likes a compliment. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. 28

30 I will prepare and someday my chance will come. If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Whatever you are, be a good one. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. 29

31 Richard Branson A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - every day I'm learning something new. Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars. Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. It became apparent to me that business could be a creative enterprise in 30

32 itself. Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue. Well, I'm somebody who is just living...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right. I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people. I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love. I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun. 31

33 Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. It s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you ll drift in that direction. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. You do things when the opportunities come along. I ve had periods in 32

34 my life when I ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I ll do something. If not, I won t do a damn thing. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don t do too many things wrong. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Can you really explain to a fish what it s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value. If you re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. I still believe in the philosophy FORTUNE quoted me saying this 20 years ago that a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. Someone s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right 33

35 and that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else 34

36 Jim Rohn A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Either you run the day or the day runs you. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. 35

37 If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. 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. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. The book you don't read won't help. 36

38 The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. 37

39 Stephen R. Covey The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. The way we see the problem is the problem Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside. We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind. 38

40 The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most Michael Jordan Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. 39

41 I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. I've never been afraid to fail. If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." "I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me... Failure always made me try harder next time." "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." 40

42 "It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody... My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can,... People may not agree with that... I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do." "To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate." "I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results." You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. 41

43 Lance Armstrong Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you,... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it. I'm sorry for you,... I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. For me it was always a simple passion, I think the race has everything. I think it has difficulty, it has joy, it has excitement, it even has death. 42

44 Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody Energy and persistence conquer all things. There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. 43

45 When in doubt, don't. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. When you're finished changing, you're finished. God helps those who help themselves. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. 44

46 Ralph Waldo Emerson For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. What you are comes to you Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. We are always getting ready to live, but never living To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Every artist was first an amateur. 45

47 The only way to have a friend is to be one. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. The highest revelation is that God is in every man Nothing external to you has any power over you. 46

48 Chuck Palahniuk The best way to waste your life,... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. If you don t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don t You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. 47

49 Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. 48

50 Robert Kiyosaki Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most Do today what you want for your tomorrows A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who 49

51 has already been there. Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers Remember to dream big, think long-term, underacheive on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success. When people are lame, they love to blame. 50

52 Friedrich Nietzsche You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. No victor believes in chance There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. 51

53 The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness Without music, life would be a mistake. Art is the proper task of life. If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism 52

54 Winston Churchill I am easily satisfied with the very best. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. The price of greatness is responsibility. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won 53

55 We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it I never worry about action, but only about inaction Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Never, never, never, never give up. 54

56 There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. 55

57 William Shakespeare It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. Listen to many, speak to a few. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. l do desire we be better strangers 56

58 John Lennon A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. Love is the answer, and you know that for sure. The more I see the less I know for sure. I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. You're all beautiful and you're all geniuses. 57

59 Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. As you think, so shall you become. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. 58

60 If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Real living is living for others. Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. 59

61 Wayne Dyer Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say. All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change 60

62 you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy. I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. 61

63 Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. It's never crowded along the extra mile. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose 62