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Inspirational Quotes on
LEADERSHIP & LIFE
I ntroduction
O ur achievements and performance are directly linked to how we feel and how we feel
is determined by our thoughts. In this very crowded, fast moving, high tech world it is
good to pause for a few moments each day and allow our thoughts be influenced by the
wisdom of others. As the Dali Lama said, “when you are speaking you are just repeating
what you already know, but when you listen you may learn something.”
The Optimum Results / Customer Perceptions team very much hope that you enjoy this
first little volume of ‘Inspirational Quotes for Leadership & Life’ and that in some small
way it contributes to your achievements and performance..
F or some 20 years Optimum Results and Customer Perceptions have been loyal to
their Mission Statement: “Dedicated to improving the business performance of
our clients.”
The Optimum Results team have provided business skills training and human resource
development services for over 9,000 clients across 11 Countries. More recently, the
Company operates an online, blended learning and LMS (Learner Management System)
division, Seamslms.com. Through Seams and its LMS we are providing clients with a new
era in hugely cost, time & results effective online learning and management systems.
Customer Perceptions provides Retail & Service Sector Managers with the significant
competitive advantage of understanding the thoughts & feelings of their customers across
a vast array of issues. With more than 7,000 field researchers, Customer Perceptions
recently produced its 350,000th Mystery Shopping Report.
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N inety-nine percent of the failures come from
people who have the habit of making excuses.
D o the thing you fear, and the death of fear
is certain.
4
George Washington
Ralph Waldo Emerson
T he way to get started is to quit talking
and begin doing.
Mother Teresa
6
Walt Disney
T he first step to becoming is to will it.
H appiness is not something readymade.
It comes from your own actions.
D o not wait to strike till the iron is hot;
but make it hot by striking.
8
William B. Sprague
Dalai Lama
Y ou get the best out of others when you
give the best of yourself.
10
Harry Firestone
Jonathan Winters
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
V ery often a change of self is needed
more than a change of scene.
O ne important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
12
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Christopher Benson
P ut your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your
smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
K eep in mind that neither success nor failure is
ever final.
14
Roger Babson
Swami Sivanada
S uccess is a state of mind. If you want success, start
thinking of yourself as a success.
T he world is moving so fast these days that the man
who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by
someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
16
Dr. Joyce Brothers
W ho begins too much accomplishes little.
18
Charles Carlson
Louis Pasteur
Y ou are successful the moment you start moving
toward a worthwhile goal.
I deas are a dime a dozen. People who
implement them are priceless.
20
G et your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let
them go to waste.
Les Brown
Mary Kay Ash
I dentify your problems but give your power and
energy to solutions.
W henever you do a thing, act as if all the world
were watching.
22
Thomas Jefferson
Tony Robbins
W hen you do the things you have to do when you
have to do them, the day will come when you can do
the things you want to do when you want to do them.
24
Zig Ziglar
D o the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care
of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
A ccept the challenges, so you may feel the
exhilaration of victory.
A lways bear in mind that your own resolution
to succeed is more important than any other.
26
Abraham Lincoln
George S. Patton
D estiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter
of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a
thing to be achieved.
T he world makes way for the man who knows where
he is going.
28
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jeremy Kitson
T here has never been a statue erected to honour a critic.
N o pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or
sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for
the human spirit.
30
Hellen Keller
Zig Ziglar
I n a moment of decision the best thing you can do is
the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
W hen you have to make a choice and don't make it,
that is in itself a choice.
32
Theodore Roosevelt
William James
T he only thing even in this world is the number of
hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing
is what you do with those hours.
Woody Hayes
T he most important thing about having goals is
having one.
34
Geoffrey F. Abert
S uccess has a simple formula: do your best, and
people may like it.
I t's a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it.
36
Sam Ewing
Somerset Maugham
T here is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say
nothing, and be nothing.
U nless you try to do something beyond what you have
already mastered, you will never grow.
38
Aristotle
Ronald E. Osborn
T he most powerful weapon on earth is the human
soul on fire.
S uccess is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi
40
Ferdinand Foch
T he difference in winning and losing is most often...
not quitting.
F ailure is the key to success; each mistake teaches
us something.
Morihei Ueshiba
42
Walt Disney
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage
to continue that counts.
O bstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off your goal.
44
Henry Ford
Winston Churchill
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a
product of my decisions.
E nvisioning the end is enough to put the
means in motion.
46
Dorothea Brande
Stephen Covey
T he past cannot be changed, but the future is
still in your power.
48
D on't ask for an easier life; ask to be a
stronger person.
Kristen Goeser
Hugh White
R emember that failure is an event, not a person.
I you fail, don’t blame yourself. The only thing you
take credit for is the fact that you tried.
50
Zig Ziglar
Ronald Perricone
T he tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your
goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
W in as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it
for a change.
52
Benjamin Mays
Ralph Waldo
I f you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find
they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find
them everywhere.
T hose who have succeeded at anything and don't
mention luck are kidding themselves.
54
Larry King
Zig Ziglar
F ailure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
W hen you complain, you make yourself a victim.
When you speak out, you are in power.
56
John Wooden
Eckhart Tolle
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
A s I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I
just watch what they do.
58
John Capuzzi
Andrew Carnegie
C hance favours the prepared mind.
T he actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce
60
Louis Pasteur
W hatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
L ife isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
62
Success isn't something that you do on the outside,
success is something that you are on the inside.
The rest will follow.
Chuck Danes
E xpect your every need to be met. Expect the answer
to every problem. Expect abundance on every level.
Eileen Caddy
64
K nowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
A nger is a wind which blows out the lamp
of the mind.
Robert G. Ingersoll
66
Y ou can have anything you want in life if you just
help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
B oth positive and negative thinking are contagious.
Stephen Richards
68
S uccess seems to be largely a matter of hanging on
after others have let go.
T here is only one success - to be able to spend your
life in your own way.
70
Christopher Morley
William Feather
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will
satisfy your hunger, but won't taste good.
T hat some achieve great success, is proof to all that
others can achieve it as well.
72
Abraham Lincoln
Joe Paterno
F or the prosperous, it’s not about getting more stuff.
It’s about having the freedom to make almost any
decision you want.
T o be what we are, and to become what we are
capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
74
Robert Louis Stevenson
T. Harv Eker
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