“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet and novelist)

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American lecturer, philospher, poet and essayist)

“One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.”
~ Persian Proverb

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German born American Physicist)

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
~ An Wang (1920-1990, Chinese American computer engineer and inventor)

“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
~ Rene Descartes (1596-1650, French philosopher)

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
~ Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, 563-483 BC, founder of Buddhism)

“Common sense is not so common.”
~ Voltaire (1694-1778, French philosopher and writer)

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
~ Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American statesman and orator)

“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”
~ Voltaire (1694-1778, French philosopher and writer)

“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”
~ Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826, third US president)

“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, polymath)

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
~ Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931, American Inventor)

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
~ William James (1842-1910, American psychologist and philosopher)

“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish playwright)

“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
~ William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, English playwright, novelist and short-story writer)

“The question of common sense is ”what is it good for?” A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”
~ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor and diplomat)

“Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American lecturer, philospher, poet and essayist)

“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
~ Euripides (BC 480-BC 406, Greek tragic poet)

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ~ William Penn

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” ~ Stephen R. Covey

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” ~ Charles Richards

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand 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

“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” ~ Lee Iacocca

“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.” ~ Marcia Wieder

“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” ~ Art Buchwald

“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” ~ Samuel Smiles

“Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ~ M. Scott Peck

“Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.” ~ Brian Tracy

“Time is the scarcest resource of the manager. If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” ~ Karen Lamb

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler

“For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” ~ Doug Larson

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” ~ Charles Buxton

“The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.” ~ Arnold Bennet

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” ~ Lord Acton

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” ~ Henry Ford

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~ Sam Levenson

“I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” ~ Louis E. Boone

Share your favorite time management quote in the comments below.

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Here are some inspiring and motivating quotes on the subject of Public Speaking. I’m working on some articles on the fear of public speaking and learning the skills to make you a better public speaker. Enjoy!

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld (1954-…, American actor and comedian)

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet)

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910, American author and humorist)

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ~ Cato The Elder (234 BC-149 BC, Roman statesman)

“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” ~ Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, developer of courses in public speaking and interpersonal skills, and author of How to Win Friends and Influence People)

“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.” ~ Dorothy Sarnoff (1914-2008, American operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, and self-help guru)

“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910, American author and humorist)

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” ~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930, English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic)

“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43 BC, widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators)

“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.” ~ George Jessel (1898-1981, American actor, known in his lifetime as “Toastmaster General of the United States”)

“Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.” ~ Evan Esar (1899-1995, American humorist)

“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910, American author and humorist)

“Speak when you are angry—and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” ~ Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990, educator and “hierarchiologist”, best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle)

“Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speechmaker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?” ~ Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist)

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking (1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States)

“When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.” ~ John Andrew Holmes (American physician and writer)

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“Justice is truth in action.”

“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

“The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” ~ Dr. Robert Anthony (Author of Beyond Positive Thinking)

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist, critic and essayist)

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910, American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, political and spiritual leader)

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha (563-483 BC, Siddhartha Gautama , spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism)

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim (1882-1932, American poet, novelist, and editor)

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.” ~ Peyton Conway March (1864-1955, American soldier and Army Chief of Staff)

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American essayist, philosopher and poet)

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller (1880-1968, American author, political activist and lecturer)

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~ Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918, French poet, writer and art critic)

“Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1862 American novelist and short story writer)

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, author of Think and Grow Rich – get this book free if you subscribe to our newsletter)

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” – Victor Kiam (1926-2001, American entrepreneur)

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” – Robert Benchley (1889-1945, American humorist)

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” – Wayne Dyer (1940-…, author of Your Erroneous Zones)

“You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American author, scientist, diplomat, and much more)

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy.” – Denis Waitley (1933-…, motivational speaker and author of The Psychology of Winning)

“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.” – Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, Protestant preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking)

“If you wait until all the lights are “green” before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.” – Zig Ziglar (1926-…, motivational speaker, salesman and author of See You at the Top)

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, 26th President of the United States)

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis (1878-1937, American humorist, journalist and author)

“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”" – Arab proverb

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese proverb

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese proverb

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” – Chinese proverb

“He who would leap high must take a long run.” – Danish proverb

“It is not enough to aim; you must hit.” – Italian proverb

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb

“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.” – Jewish proverb

“Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.” – Native American proverb

“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.” – Welsh proverb

“He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.” – Spanish proverb

“Complain to one who can help you.” – Yugoslav proverb

“A clear conscience is a soft pillow.” – German proverb

“A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” – Irish proverb

“A teacher is better than two books.” – German proverb

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” – Chinese proverb

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.” – Chinese proverb

“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.” – African proverb

“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” – Yiddish proverb

“God gives the nuts, but he doesn’t crack them.” – German proverb

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese proverb

“It is not enough to run, one must start in time.” – French proverb

“There is no luck except where there is discipline.” – Irish proverb

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Greek proverb

Action/Movement
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
“Never confuse motion with action.”
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”
“Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”

Anger
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

Communication
“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Failure
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Habits
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”

Life
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
“Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.”

Love
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

Success
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”

Time
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

Wealth
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”
“Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

Wisdom
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
“Observe all men, thyself most.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

And a Few More
“A small leak can sink a great ship.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“Honesty is the best policy.”
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
“Those that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

Here are some inspiring and motivating quotes on complaining. Enjoy!

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People)

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947, American founder of the Ford Motor Company)

“The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.” – Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850, Scottish judge and literary critic)

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward (1921-1994, one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims)

“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” – Randall Jarrell (1914-1965, American poet)

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” – Shirley Hufstedler (born 1925, American lawyer and US Secretary of Education under President Jimmy Carter)

“The very fact that your a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.” – James Allen (1864-1912, author of As a Man Thinketh)

“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.” – Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801, French writer)

“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.” – Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, American born essayist and critic)

“Complain to one who can help you.” – Yugoslavian proverb

“When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, English author)

“It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” – Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese thinker and social philosopher)

“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo, (author of The College Blue Book)

“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American author, scientist, diplomat, and much more)

“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, English author)

“When you consistently maintain a positive frame of mind, you’ll become known as a problem-solver rather than a complainer. People avoid complainers. They seek out problem-solvers.” – Joseph Sommerville (author of Rainmaking Presentations)

“Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.” – Og Mandino (1923-1996, author of The Greatest Salesman in the World)

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.” – Lily Tomlin (born 1939, American actress, comedian, writer and producer)

“He that falls by himself never cries.” – Turkish proverb

“If all complaints had to be accompanied by the submission of a delicious sandwich then fewer people would voice them while more would be willing to listen.” – Michael Wakcher (comic creator, writer, and satirist)

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.” – Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People)

“He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American author, scientist, diplomat, and much more)

Decision / Action

• “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
• “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
• “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
• “You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”
• “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
• “Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
• “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
• “Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
• “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
• “Personal power is the ability to take action.”
• “You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you’ve been waiting for to fall into place.”
• “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?”
• “It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.”

Beliefs

• “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”
• “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
• “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
• “All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.”

Change

• “For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.”
• “Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
• “Commit to C A N I ! – Constant And Never-ending Improvement.”

Success / Achievement

• “Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.”
• “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
• “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
• “Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
• “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
• “There’s no abiding success without commitment.”
• “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”
• “People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you’ll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”
• “You’re in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows — and has always known — that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.”
• “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”

Contribution

• “It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.”
• “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
• “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
• “I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.”

Passion

• “Live with passion!”
• “Passion is the genesis of genius.”

Goals

• “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
• “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
• “Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”
• “The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.”

Energy / Health

• “The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”
• “Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.”

Pain / Pleasure

• “The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.”
• “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”
• “My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”

Communication

• “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
• “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”

Questions

• “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.”
• “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

Failure / Problems

• “You always succeed in producing a result.”
• “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”
• “When you temporarily run aground, remember that there are no failures in life. There are only results. Consider the adage: Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment.”
• “If we don’t see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.”
• “Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.”
• “The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.”
• “Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.”
• “The past doesn’t equal the future.”
• “Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”

Life

• “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
• “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”
• “Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”
• “In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
• “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
• “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

And some more quotes

• “We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.”
• “Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.”
• “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.”
• “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
• “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.”
• “We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
• “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”
• “When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
• “Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, ‘Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.’”
• “Repetition is the mother of all skill.”

I hope you enjoyed these quotes. Let me know in the comments below which quote you like best.

And remember, “Live with passion!”

Gerber