1. 10 Quotes That Changed My
Life
By Robin Sharma
Author of the #1 Bestseller ―The Leader
Who Had No Title‖
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2. Robin Sharma
• I was in a reflective mood
this morning and thought
about 10 of the quotes that
profoundly influenced the
way I think, create and live.
• As you know, all it takes is a
single idea in small
paragraph to revolutionize
the way you play out the rest
of your life .....
• So—to inspire you (and
move you to action on your
boldest opportunities), I
wanted to share them.
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4. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
• ―Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw
back– Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is
one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless
ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise
have occurred.
• A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in
one‘s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings
and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed
would have come his way.
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
• Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.‖
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5. Henry David Thoreau, Walden:
Or, Life in the Woods
• ―I learned this, at
least, by my experiment:
that if one advances
confidently in the
direction of his
dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he
has imagined, he will
meet with a success
unexpected in common
hours.‖
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6. Ayn Rand
• ―Why do they always
teach us that it‘s easy and
evil to do what we want
and that we need
discipline to restrain
ourselves?
• It‘s the hardest thing in the
world–to do what we want.
• And it takes the greatest
kind of courage.
• I mean, what we really
want.‖
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7. Oscar Wilde
• ―Be yourself; everyone
else is already taken.‖
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8. Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
• ―The only people for me are
the mad ones, the ones
who are mad to live, mad to
talk, mad to be
saved, desirous of
everything at the same
time, the ones who never
yawn or say a
commonplace thing, but
burn, burn, burn like
fabulous yellow roman
candles exploding like
spiders across the stars.‖
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10. Theodore Roosevelt
• ―It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could
have done them better.
• The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
• because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but
who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great
enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and
• who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.‖
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12. Marianne Williamson
• ―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.‖
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13. Bessie Anderson Stanley (frequently
misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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14. Bessie Anderson Stanley (frequently
misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• ―To laugh often and love much; to win the
respect of intelligent persons and the affection
of children; to earn the approbation of honest
citizens and endure the betrayal of false
friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in
others; to give of one‘s self; to leave the world
a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation; to know even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived—
this is to have succeeded.‖
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15. Margaret Mead
• ―Never doubt that a
small group of
thoughtful, committed,
citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever
has.‖
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16. Mahatma Gandhi
• ―Be the change that
you wish to see in the
world.‖
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17. • Ok. That‘s it for now.
• Keep releasing your
excuses
+
pursuing outright
mastery
+
making the world a
better place
• because you‘re in it.
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