The Big Book of Aphorisms and Quotes E-Book

David De Angelis

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

How many times on the roads of life did we wish we had been given a hint or inspiration about what to do, where to go and with whom? The answer was already there within us but we could not hear it. The present book is intended to become an aid, for the reader, to find an inspiration daily or in times of need, which can give that necessary and, above all "inspired" push to find Motivation, Courage, Determination within oneself, and to have wise counsel on numerous areas of life.

The value of this work is precisely the collection by subject of Phrases, Aphorisms and Inspirations from the greatest figures in ancient and, especially recent history. Numerous are the Inspirational Phrases and Aphorisms from writers, philosophers, poets and thinkers, motivators and managers who have made history and continue to do so, leaving an indelible mark behind them.

Leseprobe

The Big Book

of Aphorisms

and Quotes

2,000 Author Quotes that will change your life

edited by

David De Angelis

2022 edition and translation by David De Angelis

All rights reserved

INDEX

Introduction

Success

Motivation

Realization

Love

Size

Health

Go

Victory

Happiness

Dreams

Leadership

Winning

Habits

Knowledge

Discipline

Perseverance

Character

Opportunities

Willpower

Determination

Survival

INTRODUCTION

How many times on the roads of life did we wish we had been given a hint or inspiration about what to do, where to go and with whom? The answer was already there within us but we could not hear it. The present book is intended to become an aid, for the reader, to find an inspiration daily or in times of need, which can give that necessary and, above all "inspired" push to find Motivation, Courage, Determination within oneself, and to have wise counsel on numerous areas of life.

The value of this work is precisely the collection by subject of Phrases, Aphorisms and Inspirations from the greatest figures in ancient and, especially recent history. Numerous are the Inspirational Phrases and Aphorisms from writers, philosophers, poets and thinkers, motivators and managers who have made history and continue to do so, leaving an indelible mark behind them.

By publishing this valuable collection, it is my hope to give relief, confidence and motivation to the reader who desires a boost of inspiration, which as always, must be coupled with a fair dose of action in life.

So my wish is:

Enjoy reading, Inspiration and...Action!

David De Angelis

SUCCESS

"Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Don't argue for others' weaknesses. Do not argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Every human being has four characteristics: self-awareness, consciousness, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the greatest human freedom ... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Happiness can be defined, at least in part, as the fruit of desire and the ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"If you are proactive, there is no need to wait for circumstances or other people to create expanding prospect experiences. You can consciously create your own."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Live from your imagination, not from your history."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really? ... True effectiveness requires balance."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are, consistent often unconscious patterns, constantly, every day, by which we express ourselves."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it, put an asterisk, circle it and underline it. No involvement, no commitment."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Effective people are not problem-oriented; they have opportunistic mindsets. They nurture opportunities and let problems starve."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are basically a reflection of our relationship with ourselves."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Start with the end in mind."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Each of us tends to think that we see things as they are, that we are the target. but this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are-or as we are conditioned to see it."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, even if difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction."

- Brian Tracy

"I have found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

- Brian Tracy

"All successful men and women are great dreamers. They imagine what their future can be, ideal in every way, and then work every day toward their vision from afar, of that goal or purpose."

- Brian Tracy

"If you want to accomplish worthwhile things in your personal and professional life, you must become a useful person in your own self-development."

- Brian Tracy

"Just like the car that runs smoother and requires less energy to go faster and further when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you will function better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals and values are in balance."

- Brian Tracy

"Look for the good in every person and in every situation. You will almost always find it."

- Brian Tracy

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that each step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

- Brian Tracy

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or give excuses."

- Brian Tracy

"Every minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes of execution; this gives a 1,000 percent return on energy!"

- Brian Tracy

"Develop to be successful; small differences in performance can lead to big differences in results."

- Brian Tracy

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

"Everything you do is triggered by a feeling of a desire or fear."

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

- Brian Tracy

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."

- Brian Tracy

"If you envy successful people, it will create a negative force field that will forever repel you from doing the things you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you will create a positive force field that will draw them toward you to make you more and more like the kind of people you want to be."

- Brian Tracy

"Imagine limits; decide what is right and desirable before deciding what is possible."

- Brian Tracy

"You don't live long enough to learn everything you need to learn from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things we need to learn to accomplish our goals."

- Brian Tracy

"Your greatest opportunities probably lie beneath your feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interest."

- Brian Tracy

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."

- Brian Tracy

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you look for opportunities, the more likely it is that you will be able to get the security you want."

- Brian Tracy

"A clear vision, backed by clear plans, gives you a feeling of tremendous confidence and personal power."

- Brian Tracy

"Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?"

- Brian Tracy

"Optimism is the quality most associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."

- Brian Tracy

"The way you name others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay short-term gratification in order to enjoy greater long-term rewards is a prerequisite for success."

- Brian Tracy

"It doesn't matter where you come from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, though difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction."

- Brian Tracy

"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in this, you will be able to control the changes rather than allow them to master over you."

- Brian Tracy

"The more credit you give away, the more it comes back. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."

- Brian Tracy

"Success equals goals; everything else is commentary."

- Brian Tracy

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary also involves difficulties that are out of the ordinary. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to handle them more than anyone else."

- Brian Tracy

"Communication is a skill that can be learned. It is like riding a bicycle or writing. If you are willing to work on it, you can quickly improve the quality of every part of your life."

- Brian Tracy

"Failure is not a single catastrophic event. It does not happen overnight. Instead, failure is a couple of errors in judgment, repeated every day."

- Jim Rohn

"Learn to help people with more than just their work: help them with their lives."

- Jim Rohn

"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you will have a motivated idiot."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is 20% skill and 80% strategy. You might be able to read, but more importantly, what is your plan for reading?"

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not so much what we have but what we are."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not to be pursued; it must be attracted to the person one becomes."

- Jim Rohn

"The best motivation is self-motivation. The kid says, 'I wish someone would come to me and motivate me.' - What if they don't show up? You have to have a better plan for your life."

- Jim Rohn

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the sea with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so that the children do not laugh at you."

- Jim Rohn

"Either you live the day or the day lives you."

- Jim Rohn

"Formal education will give you a living; self-education will give you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"You have to constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I ? What are they doing for me? What did they get me reading? What have they got me to say? Where will they make me go? What have they made me think? and more importantly, what will they make me become? Ask yourself this big question: Is this okay? Your life doesn't get better by accident, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"The attitude is acceptance of natural laws, or your rejection of natural laws."

- Jim Rohn

"If you don't like the way things are, change! You are not a tree."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

- Jim Rohn

"The difficulties you encounter will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will arise, and brightness with increasing clarity will illuminate your path."

- Jim Rohn

"The important value in life is not what you get. The main value in life is what you become."

- Jim Rohn

"To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: first, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, what could I ask?"

- Jim Rohn

"You have to take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. This is something that is your responsibility."

- Jim Rohn

"Now is the only time there is. Make your hour gold, your minutes miracles, and make your days worthwhile. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"End the day by looking privately directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you!' Do this for 30 days and see what a difference it makes."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Your faith determines your action and your action determines the results, but first you must believe."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"The more goals you set-the more goals you will achieve."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Predetermine the goals you wish to achieve. Think big, act big, and do everything to achieve those big results."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"With vision, every person, organization and country can prosper. The Bible says, 'without vision we are lost.'"

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Great goals lead to great results. Having no goals gets no results or someone else's results. Every disadvantage is just an opportunity that is hiding."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"The power of the focused mind is one of the most powerful forces on earth."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Predetermine the goals you want to achieve. Think big, act big, and do everything to achieve great results."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Set many goals and keep adding to them. Goals have a tendency to be accomplished all at once."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Most people fail because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all fantastic discoveries, inventions and achievements."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"You don't achieve tremendous success without encountering some really interesting problems."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Goals are new goals, always in motion. They magnetize you toward them. It's time to stop circling the pool and jump into the deep end, head down. It's time to think big, you want more and you will achieve it all!"

- Mark Victor Hansen

"Be more interested in your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is simply what others think you are."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do the hard work first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do not be afraid to give your best to what are apparently small jobs. Each time you complete one will make you much stronger. If you do small jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"People are rarely successful unless they enjoy what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Today is the time of your life, the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Take an interest in something. Shake yourself up and wake up. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm flow through you. Live today with gusto."

- Dale Carnegie

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do the thing you are afraid to do and keep doing it ... this is the safest and fastest way discovered to overcome fear."

- Dale Carnegie

"If you believe in what you are doing, then nothing will stop you in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against a seeming impossibility. The important thing is that the work is done."

- Dale Carnegie

"It is not what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what is being done that makes you happy or unhappy. It's what you think."

- Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept trying when there seemed to be no hope."

- Dale Carnegie

"Remember happiness does not depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."

- Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"Take advantage of the possibilities! All of life is a possibility. The man who goes the farthest is generally one who is willing to do and dare."

- Dale Carnegie

"The successful man will benefit from his mistakes and try again in another way."

- Dale Carnegie

"The best work goes to the person who can do it without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

- Napoleon Hill

"Action is the true measure of intelligence."

- Napoleon Hill

"Do it now!" can hit every stage of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when you have to do an unpleasant duty. But it can also help you do those things you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, can never be recovered."

- Napoleon Hill

"Don't wait; the time will never be ''right.'' Start where you are, and work with whatever tools you may have at your disposal; better tools will be found as you go along."

- Napoleon Hill

"The world has a habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

- Napoleon Hill

"Every adversity, every failure, every pain carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"What ever the human mind can conceive and believe, it can accomplish."

- Napoleon Hill

"The handyman is rarely good at anything. Focus all your efforts on a well-defined main purpose."

- Napoleon Hill

"The strongest oak in the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It is the one that stands in the middle of the green, where it is forced to fight for its existence against the winds and the rains and the scorching sun.

"Effort fully grants its reward only after a person refuses to quit."

- Napoleon Hill

"Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories he can credit to himself that qualify him to judge what can and cannot be accomplished."

- Napoleon Hill

"Desire is the starting point of all success, not a hope, not a whim, but a desire that pulses alive and transcends everything."

- Napoleon Hill

"Guard your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul; the patterns of your ultimate successes."

- Napoleon Hill

"When defeat comes, accept it as a sign that your plans are not sound, rebuild your plans, and set sail again toward your coveted goal."

- Napoleon Hill

"Keep a picture of yourself long enough and constantly in your mind's eye, and you will be projected toward it. If you do not conquer yourself, you will be conquered by yourself. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

- Napoleon Hill

"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have first cultivated the habit of saying a few kind words to those you do not admire; until you have the habit of looking for good instead of evil in others, you will have neither success nor happiness."

- Napoleon Hill

"You have to put yourself out there to make an impact. No one is impressed with the referee's win-loss record."

- Napoleon Hill

"Battle is anything but 'shouting' when you know what you want and have set your mind to it, whatever the price."

- Napoleon Hill

"There is one quality one must possess in order to win, and that is determination toward a goal, knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

- Napoleon Hill

"Any person who wins in any endeavor must be willing to cut off all avenues of retreat. Only in this way can one be sure to maintain that state of mind known as a burning desire to win-essential to success.

"It is literally true that you can succeed better and faster by helping others succeed."

- Napoleon Hill

"The most expensive advice for you is the free advice you will receive from your financially challenged friend or relative."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Average investors are on the outside trying to examine the inside of the company or property they are investing in."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"It is the investor who is risky, not the investment."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a pension is a very slow plan."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"If you don't manage fear and desire first, and you get rich, you will only be a very well-paid slave."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"To achieve more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"A business with a defined mission, a determined leader, and a qualified and united team begins to take shape as the sections of Triangle B-I are put together. This is when Triangle B-I becomes three-dimensional and becomes a tetrahedron."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"One of the reasons I don't need a job or a paycheck is because my rich daddy trained me to make money out of nothing.

"By increasing the number of controls on the investments you own, you continue to reduce the risk of the investment."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The easier you can make this subject (investment), the richer you can become by reducing your risk. But the challenge for most people is to invest the time."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to merge our gifts and complement our genes."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Ask yourself the question, "How can I do this?" your brain will get to work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and entrepreneur must be well aware of subtle changes in cash flow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The greatest challenge you have is to challenge your own insecurity and laziness."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The word accountant comes from the word responsibility. If you are going to be rich, it is necessary to be responsible for your money."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"If you want to retire young and rich, it is very important that your money is like a dog, going out every day and returning home with more assets."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person abandons what he or she feels confident about and then goes blind with faith."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that may never happen."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"I believe that life is constantly testing our level of commitment, and that in life the great rewards are reserved for those who show endless commitment to action until they reach the goal. This level of determination can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator that separates those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

- Anthony Robbins

"I came to believe that all my past failures and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that created the new level in which I live and now enjoy."

- Anthony Robbins

"The path to success is to take massive and determined action."

- Anthony Robbins

"It is not what we achieve. But who we become, what we contribute to ... That gives meaning to our lives."

- Anthony Robbins

"Most people have no idea of the gigantic capacity we can command immediately when we focus all our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."

- Anthony Robbins

"Once you master time, you will realize how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Anthony Robbins

"The path to success is to take massive and determined action."

- Anthony Robbins

"You will see in life, that many people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowledge is not enough! It is necessary to act."

- Anthony Robbins

"Action is the fundamental key to all success."

- Anthony Robbins

"I came to believe that all my past failures and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that created the new level in which I live and now enjoy."

- Anthony Robbins

"It is not what is happening to you now or what has happened in the past that determines who you become. Rather, it is your decisions about what to focus on, what is important to you, and what you are going to do about it that will determine your destiny."

- Anthony Robbins

"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'This is an opportunity to celebrate like never before, my energy, my ability to get to do what is necessary.'"

- Anthony Robbins

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people have the best questions, and as a result, they get the best answers. Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment."

- Anthony Robbins

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ability. It is more likely to be a function of what we think we are."

- Anthony Robbins

"The truth is that there is nothing that cannot be realized if: Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to have some experiences in their lives and create a meaning that can weaken them or one that can literally save their lives."

- Anthony Robbins

"I have continued to recognize that powerful individuals must change virtually everything and more in their lives in an instant. I learned that the resources needed to turn our dreams into reality are within us, just waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright."

- Anthony Robbins

"We are the only beings on the planet who lead these rich inner lives in that it is not the events that matter most to us, but rather, how we interpret them that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will behave in the future."

- Anthony Robbins

"You see, it is never the environment; It is never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to events-how we interpret them-that determines who we are today and what we will become tomorrow."

- Anthony Robbins

"It is not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs about what these events mean."

- Anthony Robbins

"I believe that life is constantly testing our level of commitment, and that in life the great rewards are reserved for those who show endless commitment to action until they reach the goal. This level of determination can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator that separates those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

- Anthony Robbins

"One of the reasons why so few of us realize what we really want is that we don't direct our concentration, we never focus our power. Most people dabble in their way along life, not deciding to master anything in particular."

- Anthony Robbins

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten."

- Anthony Robbins

"Take control of your emotions and consciously and deliberately begin to reshape your daily life experience."

- Anthony Robbins

"You are now at a crossroads. This is your chance to make the most important choice you will ever make. Forget about your past. Who are you now? Who have you really decided to be now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? What have you decided to become? Make that decision consciously. Pay attention."

- Anthony Robbins

"All personal revolutions begin with a change in beliefs. So how can we change? The most effective way is to make your brain associate tremendous pain with the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it is costing you in the present and ultimately can only bring pain in the future as well. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure with the idea of adopting a new belief that empowers you."

- Anthony Robbins

"It is in the moments of decision, that you shape your destiny."

- Anthony Robbins

"It is not what is happening to you now or what has happened in the past that determines who you will become. Rather, it is your decisions about what to focus on, what has meant to you, and what you are going to do about those things that determines your ultimate destiny."

- Anthony Robbins

"More than anything, I think it is our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our fate."

- Anthony Robbins

"The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately start working on momentum. The most important rules I ever adopted to help me achieve my goals were those. I learned from a very successful man who taught me to write down the goal first, and then not to sit still and set a goal without taking some form of positive action toward achieving it."

- Anthony Robbins

"You see, in life, a lot of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! It is necessary to act."

- Anthony Robbins

"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."

- Anthony Robbins

"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate goal of our lives. They are simply a tool to focus our attention and move in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to make ourselves expand and grow. Achieving goals per se will never make one happy in the long run; it is what one becomes, how one overcomes the obstacles necessary to achieve the goal, that can give the deepest and most lasting sense of fulfillment."

- Anthony Robbins

"You clearly decide what it is that you are absolutely committed to accomplishing,

1. You are willing to take massive action,

2. You will see what works or what doesn't, and

3. You will keep changing your approach until you get what is wanted, using whatever life offers you."

- Anthony Robbins

"We will act consistently with our vision of who we really are, whether that vision is accurate or not."

- Anthony Robbins

"If you can't, then you must. If you must, then you can."

- Anthony Robbins