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11. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” - Eleanor Roosevelt
Every feeling you have is generated
internally as a reaction (usually) to external events. It is your
interpretation of events that gives them meaning, not the events
themselves. How liberating is that? To know that people can only hurt
you if you allow them to.
Of course, you have to believe it first.
12. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what a ship was built for” – William H Shedd
Another quote that may not be attributed to the right person, but who cares who said it, it’s still brilliant.
You can hide yourself away from the world, you can avoid doing
anything risky or out there, but that’s not what you were put on this
earth to do.You were put here to be the best person you can be and that means taking risks by hauling anchor and sailing out into the uncharted open sea from time to time.
13. “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny” – Author unknown although sometimes attributed to Frank Outlaw.
I don’t think this needs any explanation other than you become what you think about, so be careful what you think about.
14. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it” —Aristotle
Most people I know like to think they are open-minded. Yet if you cannot entertain thoughts that contradict your belief system, how open-minded can you truly claim to be?
15. “What the thinker thinks, the prover proves” - Robert Anton Wilson
Taken from the absolutely brilliant book ‘Prometheus Rising’ Wilson sums up in a sentence something we all do, which is to look for evidence to support the beliefs we already hold rather than questioning them.
16. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily” — Zig Ziglar
Zig nails it with this one. Self
development is like going to the gym. Nobody gets fit by going to the
gym once, it’s a daily or weekly ritual. Self development is the same,
you have to work on it, if that is, you really want to master it.
17. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky
Guess what? If you don’t launch that ebook
you have been thinking of, you have failed. If you don’t start that new
business you have dreamed of, you have failed. And if you don’t ask for
that date for fear of rejection, you have failed.
Failure isn’t missing, failure is never trying.18 “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
Belief in yourself is so important and often the determiner in how successful you are in life.
Believe in yourself because you’re absolutely brilliant!
19. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
Look if the great man himself says reality isn’t real, who are you to argue?
Go and set your own reality and don’t allow other people to impose theirs upon you.
20. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson
The quotes were in no particular order, but
I think I’ve saved the best till last because the passage from Marianne
Williamson’s ‘A Return To Love‘
captures the essence of almost all of the preceding quotes and if you
can live your life by that one passage you will die a happy person.
So come on, don’t just sit there, leave me your favorite quote in the comments!
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