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It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
/Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Det är inte vad människan stoppar in i munnen som är av ondo sade alkemisten. Det onda är i stället vad som kommer ur den.
/Paulo Coelho
Vi måste ta vara på lyckan när vi har den med oss och göra vad vi kan för att hjälpa den på samma vis som den hjälper oss.
Lyckans hemlighet ligger i att uppmärksamma allt det underbara i världen och ändå aldrig glömma de två olje dropparna i skeden.
Och ingen gärning är fullbordad förrän dess syfte har uppnåtts.
/Ur Alkemisten av Paulo Coelho
Det som händer en gång händer aldrig igen. Men det som händer två gånger händer alldeles säkert en tredje gång.
För det mesta gör döden människor mer mottagliga för livet.
Det enda som kan göra drömmen omöjlig är rädslan för att misslyckas.
"Låt dig inte gripas av förtvivlan", sade alkemisten med en märkligt mild röst. "Förtvivlan hindrar dig från att tala med ditt hjärta."
Ögonen visar själens styrka.
När vi har en stor skatt mitt framför ögonen är det sällan vi upptäcker den. Och det beror på att vi människor inte tror på skatter.
"Vad gjorde de andra alkemisterna för fel när de försökte göra guld och inte lyckades?" "De sökte enbart guldet", svarade ledsagaren. "De ville finna skatten i sitt levnadsöde utan att egentligen leva själva ödet."
Man älskar därför att man älskar. Det finns inga särskilda skäl till att man gör det.
"Visa mig var det finns liv i öknen", sade alkemisten. "Bara den som kan upptäcka liv kan också finna en skatt."
Men kom ihåg att ditt hjärta vill leda dig till din skatt. Och att du måste finna den här skatten för att allt det du har lärt dig på vägen ska ha någon mening.
Ät när det är tid att äta. Och vandra vidare när det är tid att vandra vidare.
Han insåg plötsligt att han kunde välja att betrakta världen antingen som en stackars pojke som hade blivit offer för en tjuv eller också som en äventyrare som sökte en skatt. Jag är en äventyrare som söker en skatt, tänkte han innan han utmattad föll i sömn.
I den tidigaste ungdomen vet alla människor vilket som är deras levnadsöde. I det skedet av livet är allting tydligt, allting är möjligt, och människor är inte rädda för att drömma om och önska allt det där som de skulle vilja se hända i deras liv. Men medan åren går börjar mystiska krafter att försöka bevisa för dem att det är omöjligt att förverkliga sitt levnadsöde.
När du vill någonting verkar hela universum för att du ska kunna uppnå det.
Det är möjligheten att förverkliga en dröm som gör livet spännande.
Var och en har sitt sätt att komma till insikt om saker och ting, sade han till sig själv. Hans sätt är inte mitt och mitt sätt är inte hans. Men vi försöker båda finna vårt levnadsöde, och det respekterar jag honom för.
Idag är jag övertygad om att ingen förlorar någon, för ingen äger någon. Detta är den viktigaste upplevelsen av frihet: att ha det allra viktigaste i världen utan att äga det.
/Ur "Elva minuter" av Paulo Coelho
När jag inte hade något att förlora fick jag allt. När jag upphörde att vara den jag var fann jag mig själv.
Jag antar att du har lärt dig mycket av livet. -Livet har lärt mig att vi kan tillägna oss kunskaper, och det har lärt mig att vi kan åstadkomma förändringar.
/Ur "Vid floden Piedra satte jag mig ned och grät" av Paulo Coelho
Man måste alltid veta när ett skede når sitt slut. Sluta cirklar, stänga dörrar, avsluta kaptiel-vi kan kalla det vad vi vill, bara vi lägger det som är slut bakom oss.
/Ur Zahiren av Paulo Coelho
Jag har många ärr, men jag bär också med mig ögonblick som aldrig skulle ägt rum om jag inte hade vågat gå utanför mina gränser.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
/Vince Lombardi
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
/Margaret Thatcher
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
/John R. Wooden
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
/Washington Irving
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
/Herman Melville
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
/Theodore N. Vail
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
/Booker T. Washington
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
/Dale Carnegie
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
/Anatole France
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
/ John C. Maxwell
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
/Mike Gafka
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
/George Lorimer
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
/Francis Chan
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
/Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
/Michael Jordan
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
/Diane Ackerman
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
/George Bernard Shaw
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
/Denis Watiley
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
/Napoleon Hill
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.
/Jeff Olson
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
/Steve Jobs
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
/T. Harv Eker
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
/Robert Kiyosaki
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.
/Gurbaksh Chahal
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
/ Jim Rohn
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
/Bruce Lee
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
/Mark Twain
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
/Tony Robbins
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
/Mark Caine
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
/Henry Kravis
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
/Bill Gates
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
/Maya Angelou
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
/Ralph Nader
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
/Colin R. Davis
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
/Unknown
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
/Martha Stewart
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
/Guy Kawasaki
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
/Vidal Sassoon
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
/Earl Nightingale
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
/Pablo Picasso
You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.
/Philippos
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
/Michael John Bobak
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
/Thomas J. Watson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
/Robert Collier
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
/Napolean Hill
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
/Thomas Jefferson
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
/Dr. APJ Kalam
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
/Ray Goforth
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem.
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
/Lolly Daskal
What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
/Albert Einstein
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
/Nathaniel Hawthorne
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
/John D. Rockefeller
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
/Bruce Feirstein
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
/Oscar Wilde
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
If you're going through hell keep going.
/Winston Churchill
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
/Henry Ford
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
/Eleanor Roosevelt
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
/David Brinkley
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents - start charging for it.
/Kim Garst
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
/Thomas A. Edison
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Opportunities don't happen, you create them.
/Chris Grosser
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.
/Vaibhav Shah
Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
/Proverb
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
/Walt Disney
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
/Swami Vivekananda
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.
/Jim Rohn
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
/John Wooden
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson
It always seems impossible until it's done.
/Nelson Mandela
There is no education like adversity.
/Benjamin Disraeli
Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
/Samuel Beckett
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
/Bono
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
/Truman Capote
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
/Charles R. Swindoll
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
/Les Brown
The best is yet to be.
/Robert Browning
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
/Mario Fernandez
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
/Helen Keller
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
If I persist long enough I will win.
/Og Mandino
The first step is you have to say that you can
/Will Smith
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
/Abraham Lincoln
Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
/Doug Ivester
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
/Howard Ruff
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
/Scott Reed
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
/Ted Williams
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
/Yoda
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
/Joe Namath
I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.
/David Livingston
Action is the foundational key to all success.
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
/Mario Andretti
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
/Arnold Palmer
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
/Billie Jean King
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
/ Alan Kay
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
/Ben Hogan
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
/Arthur Christopher Benson
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
/Beverly Sills
Someday is not a day of the week.
/Denise Brennan-Nelson
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
/Russell Warren
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
/Henry David Thoreau
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
/James Allen
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
/Dalai Lama
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
/Victor Kiam
You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.
/Frank Gehry
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
/Gary Player
Do what you love and the money will follow.
/Marsha Sinetar
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
/Richard Bach
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
/Elbert Hubbard
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
/Tim Ferriss
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
/Frederick Douglass
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
/John Madden
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
/Karen Lamb
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
/Mary Kay Ash
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
/Will Rogers
Light tomorrow with today.
/Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
/Jimmy Johnson
Don't count the days, make the days count.
/Muhammad Ali
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
/Charles Kettering
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
/T.S. Eliot
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
/Christopher Reeve
The best dreams happen when you're awake.
/Cherie Gilderbloom
Make each day your masterpiece.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
/John Muir
The best way out is always through.
/Robert Frost
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.
/Christopher Morley
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
/Dr. Robert Schuller
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
/Gandhi
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
/Lao Tzu
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
/Zig Ziglar
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!"
/Audrey Hepburn
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
/Benjamin Franklin
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
/Norman Vincent Peale
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.