Personal Wisdom

• “There is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some people come into your life to test you, some to teach you, some to use you, and some to bring out the best in you.” – Unknown
• “Always trust your instincts, they are messages from your soul.” – Unknown
• “A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.”

– Thomas Carlyle

• “When the why is clear, the how is easy.” – Unknown
• “When you are bigger than your purpose, you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.”

– John C. Maxwell

• “Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.”

– Mother Teresa

• “The Godhead is never an object of it’s own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself, fire doesn’t burn itself, life doesn’t illuminate itself. It’s always an endless mystery to itself.”

– Alan Watts

• “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

• “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”

– Henry Ford

• “Your Gratitude is magnetic, and the more Gratitude you have the more abundance you magnetize. It is a Universal Law.”

– The Secret

• “Words are very powerful, so when you complain about any person you actually harm your life. By the law of attraction whatever you think or say about another person, you bring to you.”

– The Secret

• “If your eyes are positive, you will love the world. But if your tongue is positive, the world will love you.”

– Mother Teresa

• “If you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

– Paolo Coelho

• “Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”

– Tony Robbins

• “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse.”

– Jim Rohn

• “Someone somewhere is dreaming to have a life like you, so be grateful for what you are already blessed with.” – Unknown
• “If you are not excited about it, it is not the right path.”

– Abraham Hicks

• “The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.”

– Prasad Mahes

• “Ships don’t sink because of the water around them, ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what is happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.” – Unknown
• “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return to you in a different form.”

– Franz Kafka

• “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

– Randy Pausch

• “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.”

– Oscar Wilde

• “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

• “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”

• A man asked Lord Buddha “I want happiness.” Lord Buddha said – first remove “I”, that’s ego. Then remove “Want”, that’s desire. See now all you are left with is “Happiness.”
• “Happy people focus on what they have. Unhappy people focus on what’s missing.”
• “Acquire more or require less”. Happiness = What you have / What you want”
• “Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three – and paradise is when you have none.”

• “Enjoy what you have while working on what you want”
• “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

• “The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”
• “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
• “If it makes you happy, it doesn’t have to make sense to others.”

• “The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh tripple, and love without measure.”
• “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

• “Life can be happier and stress free if we remember one simple thought: we can’t have all that we desire, but God will give us all that we deserve”
• “Everyone wants happiness, nobody wants pain. But you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.”
• “All time spent angry is time lost being happy.”
• “The root of suffering is attachment.”

• “He who fears death can’t enjoy life.”

• “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

• “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”

– Vince Lombardi

• “You can’t guarantee your success, but you can guarantee your failure. Don’t give up and you can’t fail.”
• “Sometimes you need to risk it all for a dream only you can see.”
• “Never give up because great things take time.”
• “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”

– Zig Ziglar

• “Start off small. Small victories always lead to large ones.”
• “You snooze, you loose.”
• “Everything is easy if you are crazy. Nothing is easy if you are lazy.”
• “The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.”

– Bruce Lee

• “Success comes from experience, and experience comes from failure.”
• “The days that break you are the days that make you.”
• “The level of success you achieve in life depends on your level of energy.”
• “What goes around, comes around.”
• “Never work for money, work for passion.”
• “People with great passion can make the impossible happen.”
• “Winners and losers both can have same goals, but the one who follows a system (for regularly taking action) becomes a winner. Don’t just set goals, set systems.”
• “The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.”

– T. Harv Eker

• “Vague goals produce vague results.”

– Jack Canfield

• “Either be right or be rich. Choice is yours.” (It is never worth winning an argument, if you lose a relationship in the process)
• “Will is more important than skill.”
• Your “I can” is more important than your IQ

– Robin S. Sharma

• “Either be right or be rich. Choice is yours.” (It is never worth winning an argument, if you lose a relationship in the process)
• “Will is more important than skill.”
• Your “I can” is more important than your IQ

– Robin S. Sharma

• “I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”

– Ratan Tata

• “Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

• “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”

– Irving Berlin

• “Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.”

– Arianna Huffington

• “Your life is a result of your choices. If you don’t like your life, it’s time to make some better choices.”
• “We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

– Randy Pausch

• “I am my word.”
• “People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.”
• “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
• “Success doesn’t come by improving on your weakness. It comes when you focus on what you are naturally good at and become great at that.”
• “The smarter you get, the less you speak.”
• “The wise man has long ears, big eyes, and a short tongue.”
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
• “Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.”

– Jack Canfield

• “The more time you spend on your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand.”

– Robin S. Sharma

• “Life is similar to a boxing game. Defeat is not declared when you fall down; it is declared when you refuse to get up.”
• “If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

– Robert T. Kiyosaki

• “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”

– Oprah Winfrey

• “You can’t read the label from inside the bottle.” (Everyone needs a coach)
• “Every book that you read gives you a different key to your life success.”
• “Sometimes it’s not about who has more talent. It’s about who’s hungrier.”
• “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.”
• “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

– Mark Twain

• “You have to dream if you want your dreams to come true.”
• “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first think you have to do is wake up.”
• “Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.”
• “Your education budget should be higher than your entertainment budget.”
• “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

– Charles Shwab

• “You know you are winning when you see you’re being copied.”

– Robin Sharma

• “A stone is broken by the last stroke of hammer. This doesn’t mean that the first stroke is useless. Success is the result of continuous and persistent efforts.”
• “Do the thing that you fear, and continue to do so. This is the quickest and surest way of all victory over fear.”

– Robin Sharma

• “Make a list of the top 25 things you want to do in life. Now do the top 5. Never think about the other 20 or else they will be taking away time from those 5 that are most important to you.”

– Warren Buffett

• “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” Watch this video “Sharpening the axe“

– Abraham Lincoln

• “Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

– Andy Andrews

• “Strive for progress, not perfection.”
• “Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lessons of life. “
• “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”

– Rumi

• “The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.”

– Confucius

• “Most people fail in life not because they lack talent, but because they lack a burning desire to succeed.”
• “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

• “If it was easy, everyone would do it. We don’t grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges.”
• “Find three hobbies you love; one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.”
• “If the path is beautiful, ask where it leads to. But if the destination is beautiful, never mind about the path. Keep walking.”
• “The days that break you are the days that make you.”
• “You have to be odd to be number one.”

– Dr. Seuss

• “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who can’t fly.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

• “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
• “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

– C. S. Lewis

• “You can’t teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

– Galileo Galilei

• “Kill tension before tension kills you. Reach your goal before goal kicks you. Live life before life leaves you.”

• “If you stumble, make it part of the dance.”
• “Each failure brings you one step closer to success.”

– Zig Ziglar

• “Failure is merely the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

– Henry Ford

• “Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

• “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
• “Your problem is never really your problem. Your reaction to the problem is your real problem.”
• “Will it be easy? Nope. Worth it? Absolutely.”
• “Theory of life: When flood comes, the fish eat ants. But when water dries, the ants eat fish. Life gives chance to everyone, just have to wait for your turn.”
• “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.”
• “F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget everything and run’, or ‘Face everything and rise.’ The choice is yours.

• “Courage is magical. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face, it falls away.”
• “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. (You become what you think. So think positive.)

• “Yesterday I was clever, so I was changing the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

• “Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.”
• “Smile and silence are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and silence is the way to avoid many problems.”
• “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made off, not the circumstances.”
• “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

• • “Knowledge is learning something everyday. Wisdom is letting go off something everyday.”

• • “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
  • “If you cry at trouble, it grows double. But if you learn to laugh at trouble, trouble will disappear like a bubble.”
  • “God answers in three ways: He says yes and gives you what you want, He says no and gives you something better, He says wait and gives you the best.”
  • “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

• • “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills.”
  • “Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.”
  • “Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it.”

• • “No poison can kill a positive thinker, and no medicine can heal a negative thinker.”
  • “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

• • “Broken crayons still color.”
  • “Every saint has a past & every sinner has a future.”

• “People with great passion can make the impossible happen.”

– Unknown

• When someone says “I hate you”, they really mean “you hurt me”
• “Perfect people don’t drink, don’t fight, don’t lie, don’t make mistakes and… don’t exist.”

• “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

• “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is what merely people think you are.”

• “If you are helping someone and expecting something in return, you are doing business not kindness.”
• “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing that it is stupid.”

• “10% of conflicts are due to difference in opinion and 90% are due to wrong tone of voice.”
• “Making a million friends is not a miracle, the miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when millions are against you.”
• “Never forget 3 types of people in your life: 1. Who helped you in your difficult times, 2. Who left you in your difficult times, 3. Who put you in difficult times.”
• “The most memorable people in your life are the ones that love you when you aren’t the most lovable.”
• “Choose people who choose you.”
• “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

• “After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
• “The things you say about others, say a lot about you.”
• “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”

• “You need power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough the get everything done.”

– Charlie Chaplin

• “The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can’t read.”

– Charlie Chaplin

• “Reading is a powerful way to gain many years of knowledge in a few hours.”
• “When you are overthinking, write. When you are underthinking, read.”

• “In a fit body resides a fit mind.”
• “Eat your food as your medicine, otherwise you have to eat medicines as your food.”

• “If you really want to know how rich you are, drop a tear and see how many hands come to wipe that tear.”

• “The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”

• “If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor, it is your mistake.”

• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”

• “Travel far enough to meet yourself.”

• “When you travel, the voyage never ends. You leave a part of you there and bring a part of it from there.”
• “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

• “The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page.”

• “Revenge is the mode of ignorance – it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.”

• “Do what scares you until it doesn’t.”

• “Sometimes what you are most afraid of doing, is the very thing that will set you free.”

• “Fear: False evidence appearing real.”
• “F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget everything and run’, or ‘Face everything and rise.’ The choice is yours.”

• “The God behind you is stronger than the enemy in front of you.”