Quotes which elevated my life — Part I

I love not only reading self help books but also to jot down important quotes and information. This lasting habit has filled many exercise books and I thought of sharing it with you one by one so that you can grab it fast.

1. Failure is the highway to success
2. Chickens always come home to roost.
3. Don’t expect others to become anything more than you are willing to become yourself.
4. People do what people see.
5. Awareness precedes change.
6. Be managed by mind led by heart
7. Every time you avoid doing right, you fuel the habit of doing wrong
8. I’ve had dreams and I’ve had nightmares. I’ve overcome my nightmares because of my dreams.
9. Listening truly is the highest complement.
10. The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated: William James
11. Many times I realized how much of my own outer and inner life is built upon labors of my fellow men and how earnestly I must exert my life in order to give in return as much as I have received: Albert Einstein
12. In 1963, Meteorologist Edward Lorenz postulated that flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Singapore could effect a hurricane in North Carolina. Simply telling “Small actions can have big consequences.”
13. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you’ll avoid a hundred days of sorrows: Tibetan proverb
14. Adversity is always followed by opportunity
15. Most people go to bed hungry every night, hungry for a little sincere appreciation and respect.
16. See failure as a market research.
17. Can’t play the piano without hitting a few wrong notes.
18. The arrow that hits the bull’s eye is the result of one hundred mistakes.
19. Every human is genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium
20. The best antidote doe fear is knowledge.
21. Empty pennies from your pocket into your mind and your mind will fill your pocket with dollars and keep it full forever: Ben Franklin
22. Knowledge that remains unapplied is worthless.
23. Spring has past; summer has gone and winter is here; And the song that I meant t sing is still unsung. I’ve spend my days stringing and unstringing my instrument: Rabindranath Tagore
24. As you sow, so shall reap.
25. The funeral pyre burns the dead while worry burns the living.
26. I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life. Some of which actually happened: Mark Twain
27. Simplicity is the highest form of elegance.
28. If you do not act on your life, life will act on you.
29. The past is a history and the future is a figment. This day, the present is really all have.
30. Reflection is the mother of wisdom.
31. As long as you live, learn how to live.
32. The secret of personal effectiveness is concentration of purpose.
33. If your priorities do not get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get scheduled into yours.
34. There is nothing noble in being superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self: An ancient Indian proverb
35. Success is defined by what we do when no one is watching.

PS: Most of the above quotes were taken from Robin Sharma’s books.

Let’s meet with part II.

Until next time, try to remember what is in part I.