Best inspirational quotes

MY BEST INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MD SOHEL RANA, BME, MSC, SJTU
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MY BEST INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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1 Myth 1: Leaders work smarter, not harder. Ekaterina
Walter
2 I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. Estee Lauder
3 There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure.
Colin Powell
4 Myth 2: Leaders have all the answers. Ekaterina
Walter
5 Leaders don‘t create more followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters
6 A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his
aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
7 Myth 3: Great leaders are always in the spotlight. Ekaterina
Walter
8 I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job. Smith
9 You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the
credit.
Harry S.
Truman
10 It‘s alright to be Goliath but always act like David. Philip Knight
11 Myth 4: Leaders are always ―on Ekaterina
Walter
12 Myth 5: Great leaders are born, not made Ekaterina
Walter
13 Leaders aren‘t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work. And that‘s the price we‘ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or
any goal.
Vince
Lombardi
14 The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a
genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have
certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G.
Bennis
15 Leadership is a skill, not a genetic disposition. Ekaterina
Walter
16 Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the
problems.
Brain Tracy
17 Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and
the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you
want to do them!
Zig Ziglar
18 A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough
decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out
to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of
his intent.
Douglas
MacArthur
19 A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader
inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
20 The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey
S.Firestone

21 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man‘s character, give
him power.
Abraham
Lincoln
22 Life‘s most persistent and urgent question is, ‗What are you doing for others? Martin Luther
King, Jr.
23 I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for
failure –which is Trying to please everybody.
Herbert
Bayard
Swope
24 Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is
defined by results, not attributes.
Peter Drucker
25 Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity.
George
S.Patton
26 Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become
a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
27 A great leader‘s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John
C.Maxwell
28 ―Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides
together.‖
29 I'm going to fight, I'm going to work, I'm going to press toward, I'm going to learn,
I'm going to do everything in my power. Every single day, I'm going to do
everything in my power to become a victor, not a victim. Winners win and losers
lose.
Dr. Eric
Thomas
30 The body has limitations, the mind does not. We focus so much on what goes on
from the neck down that we forget it all starts from here (brain or mind). If you‘re
not mentally ready, you never really physically prepared.
31 It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life
and I haven‘t done badly. People won‘t have time for you if you are always angry
or complaining.
Steven
Hawking
32 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert
Einstein
33 I firmly believe that everybody on this planet has a gift. It‘s your job to figure-out
what that gets it, then it becomes your job to decide whether you are going to act
on that or not.
34 Don‘t cry to quit, cry to keep going. You‘re already in pain, get something for it.
35 Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others,
not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.
36 Every upgrade you get it. Every piece of software you get it. You are upgrading
your technology and you‘ve not upgraded yourself. You got the same operating
system you had since 1995. You don‘t think any different. You don‘t speak any
different. You are the exact same person you were in 2010. And I challenge you
the final one, I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement and like the lion, go
from a gazelle to a lion. Why? Because if you don't kill it, then your family won‘t
eat.
37 Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but
eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however,
it lasts forever.
38 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

39 Look at successful people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Oprah, Mark
Cuban, Jack Ma and any other highly successful human. They are successful
because they use their time right. They are successful because they use lifetime
learners. They commit to learning new things every single day. Warren Buffett,
one of the wealthiest humans on the planet, is famous for reading more than 5
hours every day. Bill Gates reads one book per week. Mark Cuban, three hours a
day. Oprah, she‘s just obsessed with books. Notice a common theme here?
Successful people never stop learning. And moral of the story: ―The more you
learn, the more you earn.‖ That is so true.
40 If you don‘t like something, change it. If you can‘t change it, change the way you
think about it. –Mary Engelberit
41 "I failed 3 times in college. I applied 30 times to get a job but I was always
rejected. When KFC came to China for the first time, we were 24 to apply and I
was the only one dismissed. I wanted to go into the police but I was the only one
not accepted. I applied 10 times to Harvard University in the US and I was
rejected." This is Jack Ma, Alibaba Creator and 22nd World‘s richest man
according to fortune and according to Forbes 2015 list with $29.8 billion net-
worth. Moral of the story: Failure is the step stone for success.
42 Steve Jobs said, ―Stay hungry, stay Foolish.‖ That means if you're "hungry" and
"foolish," you are willing to learn. So Steve Jobs was telling people always be
willing to learn new things.
43 The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
44 You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. When you
blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn
nothing, because, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. -Joe Strummer
45 Don‘t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference. Anything you
want good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. When you get it, reach
back. Pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Just because you‘re doing a lot
more, doesn‘t mean you‘re getting a lot more done. Don‘t confuse movement with
progress.
46 If you will spend one extra hour each day, studying your chosen field, you‘ll be a
national expert in that field in five years or less.
47 ―The more I study science, the more I believe in GOD.‖ - Albert Einstein
48 I‘m not the best. I‘m not the brightest. I‘m not the strongest or the fastest; you
might be stronger than me. You might be faster than me, but you will not outwork
me. You will not have more drive than I have; more passion than I have, and I will
beat you every single day because I have passion. Eric Thomas.
49 In order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline and consistency every
day. Not just on Tuesday and miss a few days. You have to work at it. Every day
you have to plan. Every day you‘re going to saying ‗We don‘t plan to fail, we fail
to plan!‖ Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do.
50 Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Life the weights,
sprint the hill, work on the project, get out of bed; as an overall rule, I do not like
procrastination. You need to get things done.
51 Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two
doubles.
52 You can‘t just say you want it. You can‘t watch the video and say: ―I want it as

bad as I wanna breathe.‖
53 It‘s cute to say it. But when it‘s sometime, when the sun comes up, when the sun
comes up you got all the books. You got all it takes. You got all the access. Now
it‘s time to hunt. And what separates you from everybody else, is that when is time
to hunt, you‘re ready to hunt. Everybody‘s got lions on their profiles. Everybody
talks positive about themselves. Everybody talks like you‘re a beast. You dress
like you‘re a beast. You got the cars like a beast. But then when it‘s time to do
what a beast do, you back up. You gotta get up and make it happen. I can, I will, I
must.
54 Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
55 Don‘t just listen. Don‘t just listen. Do!
56 If you can‘t explain it simply, you don‘t understand it well enough.
57 Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. Guy
Kawasaki
58 Don‘t worry about failures, worry about the changes you miss when you don‘t
even try.
Jack Canfield
59 Success is not the key to happiness or no accident. Happiness is the key to success.
It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of
what you are doing or learning to do.
60 If opportunity doesn‘t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
61 It doesn‘t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph
begins with you always.
62 Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same
on the second time.
George
Bernard Shaw
63 Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the
future.
Alice Walker
64 Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert
H.Schuller
65 No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still
way ahead of everyone who isn‘t trying.
Tony Robbins
66 Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard
67 We can‘t solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them. Albert
Einstein
68 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is
not stop questioning.
69 Winners don‘t do different things, they do things differently.
70 "Success comes from good decisions. Good decisions come from experience.
Experience comes from bad decisions" So learn from your Mistakes.
71 A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Elligton
72 When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes
off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
73 Life isn‘t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George
Bernard Shaw
74 Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. If you keep blaming
something or someone else for your problems you will never learn why problems

come your way.
75 Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent!
76 Prayer is an amazing exchange. We hand over our worries to Allah. Allah hands
over peace to us..!!!
77 Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly
eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.‖
John F.
Kennedy
78 Born from different mothers skins of all colours come together as brothers. That‘s
the beauty of Islam.
79 Productivity is always intentional and deliberate.
80 English, if you don‘t use it, you lose it.
81 Every single day, if you do a little, you‘re gonna wake up one day and you‘re
dreams are going to be a reality.
82 Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.‖ Albert
Einstein
83 You don‘t start because of what you don‘t have. You don‘t start because you don‘t
realize yet. That the fruit of everything good in life begins with a challenge.
84 The path to success is not a straight line. Once success is a habit, then it‘s all
downhill.
85 Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for
something we love is called passion.
Simon Sinek
86 "Love is a Decision" Gary Smalley
87 A culture is strong when people work with each other for each other. A culture is
weak when people work against each other for themselves.
Simon Sinek
88 A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people
that trust each other.
Simon Sinek
89 If they respect you, respect them back. If they disrespect you, respect them back.
They represent their ideology, you represent yours.
90 Growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow is gonna get better. The first question
is very simple. What are you doing to develop yourself? 99% of people today are
assuming, just assuming. That somehow they‘ll get better, very sad folks, very
sad. Because let me tell you something about assumption. The assumption is a
huge disappointment in life. You show me a person that assume and I‘ll shaow
you a person that almost daily is disappointed.
91 My true feelings is this: No matter who you are, no matter what age you are, no
matter the time in your life, if you have a dream and you have the drive, you can
make anything happen.
92 You have a dream that you can be something in life and you can do something in
life. If you don‘t dream it, you can‘t become it.
93 You have to actually show up every day and pinch yourself forward toward these
dreams and not only to show up every day and once in a while pinch yourself. I
mean, every day you have to actually take an action that moves you forward. Not
just research, not just thinking. Look, the power of intention is great, but without
any initiative, is dead right? A dream is great, but without any movement is dead.
You have to be moving towards every day.

94 Take action! So many people talk about doing something or say ―What if?‖. But
they don‘t actually get up and do it. Taking action is really important.
95 My advice is just to focus on each day. And then you have a plan in place of how
you want to improve and how you want to get better, and you stick to that plan
and trust the fact that every day that you stick to the plan will get you to your end
result.
96 The key to being successful is to work harder that other people, because
everybody wants success. Everybody wants a Lamborghini, everybody wants
freedom. But, what are you willing to do to get there?
97 So much of success is seeing yourself as victorious. You have to see yourself, you
have to really believe in yourself. And sometimes is hard. You have failures, you
have weaknesses, you have other things. You have to see yourself as a one man
band. Don‘t rely too much on other people because they‘ll let you down. You have
to see yourself as victorious.
98 Anything and everything can be done if you can visualize it and if you believe in
yourself. To be a winner, you have to think like a winner. If you don‘t think like a
winner it‘s just never gonna happen. You‘re going to find the naysayers every turn
that you make.
99 Don‘t listen, just visualize your goal, know exactly where you want to go. Trust
yourself. Get out and break some of the rules and never ever be afraid of failure.
100 The time is now. The time is now to express and for people to believe in
themselves. The time is now for you to be ok to be great.
101 When you look at the accomplishments of the accomplished people and you say
‗Boy that must‘ve been really hard‘ you know, when you look at something that
looks hard, that was probably easy. And reversely, when you look at something
that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you‘re never goona know which is
which until you‘re actually gonna do it. So just go and do it, try it, learn from it.
You know, you fail at some things, that‘s learning experience that you need so that
you can take it on to the nest experience.
102 The bridge between reality and a dream is work. And when I always have
moments of despair and doubt and dark days, I focus on the work. I show up and I
work and I work and I work……
103 You‘ll never be the best looking, you‘ll never be the tallest, most talented, most
capable, you‘ll never have the most money. There will always be someone who‘s
better at whatever you‘re doing than you are. But you can always be the hardest
working person in the room. And I think a hardest working person will always
win.
104 I don‘t think there‘s any magic in being successful. And I‘m not talking about
making a million dollars or a billion dollars; I‘m just talking about being
successful. I don‘t think is any magic. You gotta work hard, you gotta respect the
people around you, and you just gotta go. I‘ve never met a successuful person that
doesn‘t work hard.
105 You know, to be grat I think you have to fight. I very much think that my success
is a product of some level of skill but I do think I win because I outwork people. I
really do believe that. I do belive that 100%

106 So listen to me, there are those of you who are saying: ―I want to be a millionaire‖
―I wanna be the best at this company‘ right? But your value system says believe in
sleep more that you believe in grinding! Your value system says you are a
consumer and not a producer! That you‘re spending more money than you‘re
making. Why? Because you‘re a consumer. You‘re reading all the books and
you‘re saying everything the books are saying, but those books are not in
alignment with your value. And if you wanna go to the next level, your value is it
gonna have to change.
107 Life is like this super temporary mega fragile thing. You only get a like nugget of
time to really pursue the things you care about. We have to understand what we‘re
good and bad at, and you have to let go of what you‘re bad at. You have to. If
you‘re naturally bad at singing like I am, you shouldn‘t be putting your career and
your life in a position to become a professional singer. It‘s a bad idea!
108 In life, you should only ever be doing one, of two things. And that is – figuring out
what you‘re most passionate about, like finding your dreams in life. And then two
- realizing those passions, realizing those dreams.
109 When you‘re not clear on what you want like, you get out whenever you feel like
it, you don‘t have no drive, you don‘t have no passion. And so when people ask
me – Where your passion comes from? Where your drive comes from? I know
what I want! I‘m talking about knowing what you want, because when you know
what you want, that‘s where the drive comes from. That‘s where the passion
comes from.
110 Keep yourself extremely busy! As long as you‘re doing something, you will find
your path. Is when you get lazy that everything becomes skewed, everything
becomes gray or foggy. Your life comes down to your decisions. And if you
change your decisions, you‘ll change everything.
111 Life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume a
risk. The most dangerous thing you can do in your career, the most dangerous
thing you can do in life, is play it safe.
112 If you wanna affect the world, you have to change yourself first. Everybody tries
to go out and change the world by changing other people and other things. But the
real way to do it is by changing yourself. And sometimes making those really
uncomfortable choices, to go up against everyone in your life that you look up to,
it takes that risk.
113 When I visit students I also tell them that them that the greatest risk they take is
not taking one. Which by the way, Miss Martinez taught me that! And I used it to
this day. Anytime I feel that ‗Should I?‘, I feel nervous like I feel right now, I take
the risk. And for all the students, for all the teachers, and for all the educators here,
we have to take the risk. If we don‘t take that risk, I go back to it, it‘s the biggest
risk that we take.
114 Whatever it is, you‘re bold enough, you‘re big enough to dream. If you are
intentional an deliberate about it. Now, there are some aspects of it that are going
to be organic. But, if you are intentional and deliberate. If you build it on Monday,
if you build it on Tuesday, if you build it on Wednesday. I want you to understand
that is not going to happen by luck. Productivity is always intentional and
deliberate. And when a Tuesday went Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Sat… no..no. No luck guys. Every single day, if you do a little, you‘re
gonna wake up one day and you‘re dreams are going to be a reality.

115 So listen to me, there are those of you who are saying: ―I want to be a millionaire‖
‗I wanna be the best at this company‘ Right? But your value system says you
believe in sleep more than you believe in grinding! Your value system says you
are a consumer and not a producer! That you‘re spending more money than you‘re
making. Why? Because you‘re a consumer. You‘re reading all the books and
you‘re saying everything the books are saying, but those books are not in
alignment with your value. And if you wanna go to the next level, your value is it
gonna have to change.
Dr. Eric
Thomas
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162 Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to
failure.‖
Og Mandino
163 Knowledge is learning something new everyday. Wisdom is letting go of some
bad habits everyday.
Farshad Asl
164 Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic
relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
Gift Gugu
Mona
165 If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither
and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an
opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don‘t give it an
opportunity to repeat itself.
Swami
Satchidananda
166 Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an
increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and
contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Mortimer J.
Adler

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167 Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn
168 Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle
169 Habit is stronger than reason. George
Santayana
170 Happiness is a habit – cultivate it. Elbert
Hubbard
171 You need activation energy to start the change. To start to sit down. To start to get
out the bed. To start to walk out the door. That‘s the key to creating any kind of
change. This activation energy inside of you that causes the initial ―Go‖!. And
then, what do we hear over time? Once you start there‘s a chain reaction and that
allows you to keep going.
172 You have to act on your passion. You have to act on your drive. Don't let those
feelings stay inside of you. You gotta know what to do with them. You gotta know
how to make them work in order to get what you want. Don't keep it inside.
173 You wanna improve? You want to get better? You wanna get on a workout
program or a clean diet? You wanna start a business? Where do you start? You
start right here. And when you start? You start right now!
174 Everybody, at one point and time in your life, to be successful you have to jump.
Jumping is the hardest thing for people to do. But you have to jump. If you never
jump, you'll never be successful. When you first jump, I guarantee you the
parachute ain't gonna open. i promise you that. But guess what? Eventually, it
does open. And then you start your glide. But it starts with the jump. You have to
jump, man.
175 No matter how painful it is, I gotta keep going. And I gotta keep going because
what is my passion? What is my focus? Your focus and your passion will numb
you. To failure and to pain. Or striving to get to where you're trying to go. I don't
accept that I am what I am and that "that" is what I'm doomed to be. No! I don't
accept that. I'm fighting. I'm always fighting. I'm struggling and I'm scrapping.
And kicking and clawing it in thos waknesses. To change them. To stop them.
some days I win. Some days I don't. But each and every day, I get back up. And I
move forward. With my fists clenched toward the battle. Toward the struggle. And
I fight with everything I've go to overcome those weaknesses. And those
shortfalls. And those flaws.

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