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I ask what makes you wake up every day, rush to work irrespective of various problems in office and
involve in regular routine. If we think these are really painful every day, then what makes us do the
same mundane activities day after day all through our life?
As Anthony Robbins put it, “There are two things that motivate us to success: Inspiration or
Desperation.
While operating from inspiration side, we strive to achieve something really great in our life and we
are fully dedicated towards that higher goal or purpose. In that pleasure of pursuing the higher goal
we normally tend to overlook the smaller pains and troubles we face in our day to day lives.
While operating from desperation side, we strive to get out of something that really bothers us and we
are equally committed to work towards something better than what we are today. In that pursuit of
coming out of the pain at present we normally tend to overlook the smaller pains and troubles we face
in our day to day lives.
Inspiration or desperation, none of them is fully right or wrong, and no human being is operating
completely from inspiration or desperation side. We tend to act according to the situations around,
entirely based on our existing patterns that have been programmed all along our life since childhood.
Either way is appropriate moving towards pleasure or moving away from pain, where as people
moving towards inspirational goals are widely appreciated by the world around us.
A nice quote just flashed in my mind and that goes like this:
‘The world is moved by highly motivated people, highly energetic folks, enthusiastic men and women
who want to achieve something great and believe in greater aspirations.”
Let’s find out our appropriate style of motivation that will drive us towards our greater purpose in life.
Hence we dedicate this free eBook to act as an inspiration that will lead you away from desperation
and towards a successful life. Enjoy!
1. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
2. See and think of yourself as a leader and then do what leaders do. Dare to go forward.
3. Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather
than reactive.
4. A sense of self control is essential to a feeling of self-confidence and a positive mental
attitude.
5. Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.
6. Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.
7. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you that determine
how you feel.
8. Decide in advance to respond positively and constructively to every adversity.
9. Develop an attitude of positive self-expectancy, confidently expecting to gain something from
every situation.
10. What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within
us.
11. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
12. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
13. Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
14. Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-
esteem.
15. If your happiness is dependent on someone changing, you are bound to be disappointed.
16. Confident people are willing to take risks: people who take risks develop self-confidence.
17. The better you get along with other people; the better you feel about yourself.
18. The best words for resolving an disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am,” it’s true.
19. Don’t ask for things to be easier; ask instead for you to be better.
20. It’s better to lose your ego to the one you love. Than to lose the one you love because of ego
21. If an egg is broken by an outside force, a life ends. If an egg breaks from within, life begins.
Great things always begin from within.
22. Why we have so many temples, if god is everywhere? A wise man said: Air is everywhere, but
we still need a fan to feel it.
23. When you trust someone trust him completely without any doubt. At the end you would get
one of the two: Either a lesson for your life or a very good friend.
24. Life is not about the people who act true to your face; it’s about the people who remain true
behind your back
25. Soldier: sir we are surrounded from all sides by enemies, Major: excellent! We can attack in any
direction.
26. The worst in life is "attachment” it hurts when you lose it. The best thing in life is “loneliness”
because it teaches you everything and, when you lose it, you get everything.
27. "You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind
blows your footprints away."
28. “The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could
become.”
29. Know where you're going in life.... you may already be there
30. Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
31. Develop an “attitude of gratitude”: Be thankful for every good thing in your life.
1. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect others and the more they
like and respect you.
2. Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in
your world.
3. Make others feel important. The more important you make them feel, the more important you
feel as well.
4. END is not the end, in fact END is "Effort Never Dies" and If you get NO in for an answer,
remember NO is "Next Opportunity" So always be positive..
5. Whenever you do something nice for someone else, your self-esteem and self-confidence go up
proportionately.
6. Single minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and
increases your self-confidence.
7. Treat each person with consideration, caring and courtesy – and watch your confidence soar.
8. Practice the body language of self-confidence. Stand tall and straight with your chin high and
walk briskly. You will feel and act better.
9. Every time you say “thank you” to another person, they feel better and so do you.
10. Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.
11. Complete acceptance of yourself as a valuable and worthwhile person is a real esteem builder.
12. Your ability to persuade and influence others determines the quality of your life and self-
confidence.
13. Life is too short to waste a minute of it doing a job you don’t like or care about.
14. Confidence comes from being prepared to cut your losses, to walk away from a bad situation.
15. If you were not doing your current job today, would you apply for it? Would you get it?
16. Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
17. If you don’t want to be excellent at your current job, it’s probably not the right job for you.
18. Choose a field you enjoy and then become totally absorbed in it.
19. Where do you want to be in the next five years? Is what you are doing right now going to get
you there?
20. Determine your personal Area of Excellence. How can you best capitalize on it?
21. Be prepared to reinvent yourself every year. Imagine starting over with no limitations or
encumbrances.
22. Learn to negotiate in your best interest. It makes you feel terrific.
23. Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers.
24. Self-confidence requires having courage to live your life in your own way.
25. High levels of self-confidence come from the feeling that you are the master of your own
destiny.
26. Concentrate on one thing, the most important thing, and stay with it until it’s complete.
27. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you do not have; and always remember that
what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
28. When you’re in a hurry, go slowly. The faster you go in life the sooner it is a blur.
1. Forget what we've been told, you deserve whatever you desire
2. Be alert, there are no coincidences
3. You are never alone
4. There is no right or wrong
5. People are entitled to believe whatever they choose
6. When you think the other person is dumb, you are making a fool of yourself
7. The key to happiness is not that you never get upset, frustrated or irritated. It is how quickly
you decide to snap out of it.
8. Two things determine if a person will be a success: reasons and results. Reasons don't count
while results do...
9. Forgiveness can be difficult, but to simply release and let go of past hurts is a skill that can be
learned with practice.
10. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools
11. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do.
12. Fortune favors the brave. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!
13. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we
recommend it daily.
14. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating
desire, which transcends everything
15. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.
16. When you believe in yourself, you have the first secret of success.
17. 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
18. Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and
creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to
respond, to change
19. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
20. Try not to judge people
21. All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination; Imagination is the workshop of
your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth
22. There is just one life for each of us: our own
23. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the
best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities
24. There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day
25. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could
be, ideal in every respect, and then they work toward their distant vision
26. There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood
27. They can because they think they can
28. Desire everything, but need nothing or anyone
29. There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work
30. No man is a failure who is enjoying life
31. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice
1. You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
2. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose
3. If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll
be unhappy for the rest of your life
4. Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely
upon what you think
5. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.
6. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
7. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
8. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
9. It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
10. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
11. Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
12. Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.
13. It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
14. You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
15. If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
16. It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
17. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
18. Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
19. Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
20. If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
21. Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
22. The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
23. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to
look fear in the face...
24. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that
says, “I'll try again tomorrow."
25. You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
26. You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
27. Your mind creates your reality, use it wisely
28. People's criticisms are just reflections of their own insecurities
29. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to
be alive and express what we really are
30. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any
time
1. Don’t confuse having less with being less, having more with being more, or what you have
with who you are.
2. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
3. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect
springs.
4. We get back what we give. "When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
5. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and
finding your balance is not something you can do on a balance sheet.
6. Problems are just catalysts for learning and experiencing
7. You cannot reach great heights without resistance, just like a plane cannot
8. Nothing is impossible unless, of course, you believe it is
9. For the most part, you have chosen your circumstances before you ever got here
10. You don't have to prove anything to anyone
11. Love will always be the most powerful force
12. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you
13. Don't be afraid to voice your opinion
14. Fall down seven times, get up eight
15. This is your life, live it as you like
16. Help others and you help yourself
17. You make a difference in this world, believe it or not
18. Never feel sorry for yourself, many people would trade their life for yours in an instant
19. The more we talk, the less we listen
20. Miracles happen as we speak
21. We are forever teachers and students
22. All suffering is caused by our failure to understand our true nature
23. 'Fear' is having a wrong sense of reality
24. Thoughts are the primary cause of everything
25. Your feelings let you know whether you are on a positive or negative frequency
26. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
27. Whatever you think about grows in your life. So think positive, successful and happy.
28. Building self-confidence is like building muscle – you start with the basic structure and then
you build on it.
29. You are far more intelligent and creative than you realize. Resolve to get smarter and sharper
every day.
30. Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.
31. You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to
achieve the same goals.
1. Anything anyone else has done, you can probably do as well, if you want to badly enough.
2. No one is better than you – some people are just better developed and more knowledgeable in
certain areas.
3. In sales and business, the future belongs to the askers – the people who ask for what they
want, over and over.
4. Ask for whatever you want. Ask for help, ask for input, ask for advice and ideas – but never be
afraid to ask.
5. Ask politely. Ask expectantly. Ask positively. Ask sincerely. Ask curiously. Remember, the
future belongs to the askers.
6. Ask for the job you want. Ask for the salary you want. Ask for the responsibilities you want.
7. Take advantage of your job. Take every opportunity to expand your skills and abilities.
8. Define your ideal lifestyle in every respect. What could you do today to begin creating it?
9. The first part of the word “triumph” is “try”
10. Confident people think, decide and then take action. Be decisive!
11. Accept complete responsibility for every part of your life. Refuse to blame others or make
excuses.
12. Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of yourself. If you don’t like it,
change it!
13. Face your problems squarely. As Shakespeare said, “Take arms against a sea of troubles, and
in doing so, end them”
14. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
15. Intelligence is a way of acting. If you act intelligently you are smart, regardless of your IQ.
16. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first, and often it’s worth doing poorly several
times until you master it.
17. You develop confidence by acting confidently and courageously when you could as well play it
safe.
18. Become an unshakable optimist – look for the good in every situation.
19. Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your
reality.
20. See for the valuable lesson every setback or disappointment – you will always find one.
21. After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions; what did i do right? And what would I do
differently?
22. The greatest quality is that of becoming unstoppable! And you become unstoppable by
refusing to quit, no matter what happens.
23. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Keep repeating. I can do it! I can do it! Until your fears
disappear.
24. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
25. Self-doubt does more to sabotage than all external limitations put together.
26. Self-confidence is a learnable skill, like typing or riding a bicycle. You develop it with practice.
Do what you say you are going to do
27. Feel as though you already have what you want
28. Expect or allow whatever it is that you want
29. Thoughts create and feelings bring alive
30. Not seeing is believing, but believing is seeing
1. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
2. Everyone is afraid. The superior person is the one who acts in spite of his fears.
3. If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
4. If you are totally unafraid of failure what goals would you set for yourself?
5. If you did not care at all about what anyone else thought about you, what would you do
differently, or change in your life?
6. Don’t ever worry about what people might think. Other people aren’t really thinking about you
at all!
7. You are a thoroughly good person – negative ideas you have about yourself have no basis in
reality.
8. Your thought is creative. Thoughts held in mind, produce after their kind.
9. Clear written goals with plans of action will build your self-confidence as fast as any other
factor.
10. Believe in yourself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.
11. You are in an ongoing process of becoming, growing and developing in the direction of your
dominant thoughts. What are they?
12. Self-confident people think and talk about what they really want – and they tend to get it.
13. Whatever you believe with conviction becomes your reality. Choose your beliefs with care.
14. Challenge your self-limiting beliefs. Most of them are not true at all.
15. You experience calmness and confidence when you know you are doing the right thing –
whatever it costs.
16. Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
17. Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
18. Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your
highest values.
19. Companies with clear written statements of values and principles are more dynamic and
profitable than those without. People too.
20. What are your values? What do you stand for and believe in?
21. You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior – especially under pressure.
22. You always evolve and develop in the direction of your dominant aspirations and your
innermost convictions.
23. Self-confident people are very clear about who they are and what they believe in.
24. What is your vision for yourself and your life? Where do you want to be in next five Years?
25. A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and
personal power.
26. People ignore what you say. They are only concerned with what you do.
27. Resolve today to either resolve or walk away from any situation that makes you unhappy and
causes your stress. The only measure of whether you truly believe something is how
consistently you practice it.
28. Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of people you respect.
29. Happiness and self confidence come naturally and you feel yourself moving and progressing
toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.
30. Integrity is more than a value – it is the quality that guarantees all the other values.
31. Determine your unifying principles in life and resolve to live by them.
1. The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which
he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
2. The outer limit of your potential is determined by your own beliefs and your own confidence in
what you think is possible.
3. Don’t hold grudges. Refuse to blame anyone for anything that has happened in your life.
4. Accepting total responsibility for your life give you tremendous feeling of personal power and
self-confidence.
5. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Let it go.
6. Do more than you are paid for. There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.
7. Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are
expected to do.
8. You are your most valuable asset. Take all the training you can get to increase your value.
9. Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one sees or
appreciates.
10. Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.
11. The harder you work, the luckier you get and the more self-confidence you have.
12. When your goals are magnetized with emotion of desire, you will experience what other
people call “luck”
13. There are no shortcuts. To be a big success, start a little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a
little later.
14. Resolve to pay any price to make any sacrifice to get into the top 10 percent in your field. The
payoff is incredible!
15. You have the capacity to become very very good in anything that is really important to you.
16. “Are you denying yourself greatness?”
17. A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self-confidence.
18. Invest 3 percent of your income back into yourself in the form of continuous learning.
19. There is nothing that can stop you from getting to the top of your field – except yourself.
20. Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in your field.
21. High levels of competence and mastery in your field will you a feeling of unshakable self-
confidence.
22. Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal oriented people who encourage and
inspire you.
23. Self-confidence requires high levels of health and energy.
24. Be selective about what you see, watch, hear and listen to. Keep your external influences
predominately positive. Your attitude towards life defines not only who you are, but the
quality of life you are after.
25. If you can’t find the brighter side of life; polish the darker side.
26. Attitude of adjustment is the only instrument to beat the adversities of life.
27. There are some people who live in a dream and then there are some who face reality, then
there are those who turn one into the other.
28. Money doesn't make you happy, but being happy makes you money
29. Don't let other people’s behavior determine your happiness
30. Life begins on the edge of your comfort zone