30 Quotes to Reflect on in 2014
I pulled these 30 quotes from books while I was reading them because they moved me. They are quotes to reflect on in 2014.
- “The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small, measurable amount better than mediocrity… and you’ve got it made.” Og Mandino, The Greatest Secret in the World
- “One big difference between those who truly succeed in making things happen and the ones who don’t: Those who do, act.” Jinny S. Ditzler, Your Best Year Yet
- “Geniuses realize that now is the best starting point for a brighter and more exciting future.” Patrick K. Porter, Awaken the Genius: Mind Technology for the 21st Century
- “A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction.” David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
- “The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.” Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
- “By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation… Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.” Chin-Ning Chu, Working Woman's Art of War: Winning Without Confrontation
- “The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.” Michael J. Gelb, Discover Your Genius
- “Is it surprising that in a state of sleep, when we are alone with ourselves, when we can look into ourselves without being bothered by the noise and nonsense that surround us in the daytime, we are better able to feel and to think our truest and most valuable feelings and thoughts?” Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
- “True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).” Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- “You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.” Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
- “The degree to which you awaken will be in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can accept about yourself.” Dr. Robert Anthony, The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence (Revised)
- “By looking carefully at things that excite us we can train our eyes to see what others may not notice.” David Finn, How to Look At Everything
- “There is no way to Happiness, Happiness is the way. There is no way to Peace, Peace is the way. There is no way to Enlightenment, Enlightenment is the way.” Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
- “Even a relatively minor action, if undertaken with conscious awareness of how imprints make us see an otherwise “neutral” or “empty” world as we do, will lead to tremendous results.” Geshe Michael Roach, The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life
- “A personal friend is with you through thick and thin, high position, low position, or no position. A personal friend truly cares about you and enjoys your company.” Kent M. Keith, Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World
- “When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.” Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway
- “Everyone is born with different gifts, for which the parents are not responsible. Those who have chosen a hard destiny for themselves have to work harder the greater their ambition. [People] who have chosen an easy destiny have to develop further because there is nothing they have to strive for apart from gratitude towards their parents. [People] who can achieve this will be happy.” Chao-Hsiu Chen, THE MASTER – LESSONS FOR LIFE
- “Creative imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. Imagination sets the goal picture that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics
- “To take what you know for what you know and what you don’t know for what you don’t know, that is knowledge indeed.” Confucius (The Analects of Confucius, 2:17, Translated by Simon Leys)
- “A teacher learns from the students. Who then is the real teacher/student? If the teacher is the student, then we are students learning from each other.” Paul Lester, The Zen of Photography: How to Take Pictures With Your Mind's Camera
- “Every super successful [professional] is constantly working to improve skills. Why? You must be a perpetual student to become a master in any field. Those who never achieve their potential in life simply do not exercise their innate capacity to learn and grow.” Ted Nicholas, Magic Words That Bring You Riches
- “I will laugh at the world. And with my laughter all things will be reduced to their proper size. I will laugh at my failures and they will vanish in the clouds of new dreams; I will laugh at my successes and they will shrink to their true value. I will laugh at evil and it will die untasted; I will laugh at goodness and it will thrive and abound. Each day will be triumphant only when my smiles bring forth smiles from others.” Og Mandino, The Greatest Secret in the World
- “Look for positive attributes in the people you come in contact with during the course of your day, and compliment them. Make a goal to give “five-a-day”, [five compliments].” Andrea Nierenberg, Nonstop Networking: How to Improve Your Life, Luck, and Career (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)
- “… We are all moving; some people are going forward, some backward, and some wherever the advertisers tell them to go. Are you ready to realize the limitlessness of your potential?” Patrick K. Porter, Awaken the Genius: Mind Technology for the 21st Century
- “People go through life with their minds only half turned on, except when they’re promised an adequate reward for their full attention. Ordinarily their attitude toward nearly everything they see, read, hear and experience is “SO WHAT?”” Maxwell B. Sackheim, Maxwell Sackheim's Billion Dollar Marketing: Concepts and Applications
- “Many of us don’t take risks and end up living dull, unfulfilled lives.” Steven Cody & Richard Harte, What's Keeping Your Customers Up at Night?: Close More Deals by Selling to Your Client's Pain
- “It is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.” Dorothea Brande, Wake Up and Live!
- “Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.” Earl Nightingale, The strangest secret
- “Prosperity is ephemeral; because if a man behaves with patience and circumspection and the time and circumstances are such that this method is called for, he will prosper; but if time and circumstances change he will be ruined because he does not change his policy.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
, 2:17, Translated by Simon Leys)
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