Quotes on Belief

 

 

“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”

Bernard Berenson

 

 

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

Mary Kay Ash

 

“You'll see it when you believe it.”

Wayne Dyer

 

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

Charles Kettering

 

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

Golda Meir

 

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

 

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

 

The Lens of Virtue

  

“Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.”

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

 

 

“One's outlook is a part of his virtue.”

Amos Bronson Alcott

 

“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Augustus William Hare

 

“Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.”

Epicurus

 

“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

Francis Bacon

 

“History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.”

Douglas MacArthur

 

Only You Can Fulfill Your Potential

 

 

“Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.”

Harold B. Lee

 

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”

Denis Waitley

 

“Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.”

Marla Runyan

 

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

Margaret Thatcher

 

“Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.”

Oprah Winfrey

 

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Nhat Hanh

 

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I hope you find these quotes useful.

 

 

 

Fuel Your Vision

 
 

In order to help myself and you to add fuel to our vision, I have compiled a short list of inspiring words to increase our drive for ambitious and meaningful living.

I hope you find them useful.

 

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Woodrow Wilson

 

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

 

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

Brian Tracy

 

“Vision with action can change the world.”

J. A. Baker

 

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

Andrew Carnegie

 

“Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.”

John C. Maxwell

 

“Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.”

Warren G. Bennis

 

Use these quotes to nurture your vision because a sustained vision is so powerful that it will not only change your life, it can change the entire world around you.

Attentive Repetition Is the Thing

 
 

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”_Zig Ziglar

 

If you have an audacious goal or vision, you may intend to adopt an overwhelming all-out assault to hit it. This is fine, if you are one of the very few with high-level of self-discipline required to follow through.

Still, I will caution you to rethink because of many unsatisfactory results that usually follow such an approach. As one writer comments, ‘the farther we aim for the stars, the harder it is for us to get off the couch.’

Therefore, I am suggesting you consider a surer approach to goal attainment, which is all about starting small and then repeating the basics while learning and improving along the way.

Indeed, repetition works. If we consistently put in the work and learn from our shortcomings, we will eventually achieve our audacious ambitions.

The truth about having a goal is that we can’t immediately control its attainment but we can immediately control the action we should take right now. And if we take such right actions consistently, we will steadily move toward our ambitious goal.

When you view your vision like this, then you will understand why setting up a system for putting in your work is more important than setting up a goal.

In other words, after you have written down your goals, focus less on the goal going forward. Instead focus on the repetitions that must precede the realization of that goal.

You see, the great masters don’t become great overnight, they do so by consistently striving to be better at their craft each day. In the words of Will Durant, an author of ‘the Lessons of History,’ “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Without repetition, all audacious goals would eventually amount to nothing.

Therefore, I say that positive repetition is not just the main thing, it is the only thing you need to ensure daily progress and ultimately big success.

 

 

Character Is the Foundation of True Success

  

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”_Heraclitus

 

 

Today, the only thing I have to share are few wise words on the nurturing and formation of good character.

Virtue is the source of all good, personally and collectively, so it is important that we give it the supreme attention it deserves in our day to day activities.

Now let’s hear from the masters.

 

“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.”

Abraham Lincoln

 

“Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”_William Arthur Ward

 

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”_William Ralph Inge

 

“It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.”_ Aristotle

 

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”_Thomas Jefferson

 

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Arthur Freed

 

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Finally, as the last quote shows, character has little to do with our talks but much to do with our actions and behaviours.

 

So, let’s try to be the change we yearn to see in the world, every day of our lives.

   

Occam’s Razor Principle

 
 

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

 

Today, I want to write about an idea which is a ‘figurative knife’ one can use to cut out clutters in one’s work and life so that one is able to focus on substance that really matters.

The strategy is widely credited to medieval philosopher, William Ockham who influenced many researchers to adopt the principle of simplicity in solving certain complicated problems.

In essence, Occam’s Razor principle can be adopted as a practical model that can be applied to any area of life.

Moreover, by giving preference to simplicity, we would not only achieve a desirable result faster, we would also save considerable time and energy in the process. With the application of this principle, we can actually do more with less.

In my view, this principle is one of the practical tools that enables extra-ordinary performance of Elon Musk, the Founder of SolarCity, SpaceX and Co-founder of Tesla Motors.

Though he is most widely known with the ‘First Principle’ in discovering ground-breaking solutions to real life problems, I believe the reason he could focus on the first principle with laser-like intensity is because he has the ‘razor’ at hand to cut away many seemingly good theories that could have diluted his limited attention.

So, whenever you’re confronted with a huge challenge, before diving in with stupendous energy, first think about ways you can reframe and simply the problem through the razor of Occam.

If you do, you may be awesomely surprised by the result.