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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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