1. How to manage your mindset and thoughts to achieve success?
Robin Sharma: “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
Earl Nightingale: “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”
Walt Disney: “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Bruce Lee: “As you think, so shall you become.”
Les Brown: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
Zig Ziglar: “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
Louise Hay: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
Napoleon Hill: “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Richard Branson: “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
Oprah Winfrey: “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
Andrew Carnegie: “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Coco Chanel: “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Warren Buffett: “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.”
Jeff Bezos: “If you are not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you are not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.”
Steve Jobs: “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
Bill Gates: “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
Larry Ellison: “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.”
Howard Schultz: “I was turned down by 242 of the 242 investors I initially talked to. You have to have a belief in yourself and the resilience to keep going.”
Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft): “Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”
2. How to set a definite goal?
Zig Ziglar: “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
Tony Robbins: “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
Earl Nightingale: “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
Jim Rohn: “Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
Michael Phelps: “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
3. How to overcome fear? Courage
Dale Carnegie: “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Aristotle: “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Winston Churchill: “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Mark Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Sheryl Sandberg: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
Steve Jobs: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Lao Tzu: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
4. How to recognise fear?
Plato: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Socrates: “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Rollo May: “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
C.S. Lewis: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
5. How to be unafraid to take risks?
Tim Ferriss: “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
Mark Zuckerberg: “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Richard Branson: “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”
John A. Shedd: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
J.K. Rowling: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
Warren Buffett: “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
