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ADVERSITY QUOTES

ADVERSITY QUOTES

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
― Thomas Paine

“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle

“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon Alder

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.”
― Glennon Doyle

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
― Nick Hornby

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

“Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi

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HELPING HAND QUOTES

HELPING HAND QUOTES

“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
― Mandy Hale

“Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.”
― Germany Kent

“When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.”
― Stephen Richards

“I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.’ He held out his hand, palm open. ‘Free will has to be taken,’ I said.”
― Mark Lawrence

“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“There are lots of reasons why people don’t volunteer in their community, feeling useless shouldn’t be one of them.”
― Germany Kent

“Helping hand gets help in return from others too.”
― Santosh Kumar

“Be as generous as the sun, but keep your distance lest you burn the recipients. – On the Need of Subtleness in Generosity”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“Graves are for animals and gutter-crawling worms. Helpers get forever etched upon the fabric of stars.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“We all have the power to plant seeds in our community.”
― Germany Kent

“Help can be little, but it goes longer than you can age; you can save someone who will save you tomorrow.”
― Daniel Oluwaseun

“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That’s how we’ll make the move, to reform from rude.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“By helping others, we expand our joy and fly like we were born to do so.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I may disappear in your happy days, in difficult times I’ll surely appear.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The real festival is the moment when we wipe the tears off from the faces living in despair.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The world is my home and it’s under my protection.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“If I was rich I would be a big influence on some life , by helping them wanna do better, give back to the homeless. Give some a chance at life , buying few people a home an a feeling to know what it like to have a bed of your own , be a role model for the kids to stop gang”
― Shaneika Marie

“Read a few books, you live a little, but help a few people, you live a lifetime.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“If every child grows up watching their parents lend a hand to those in need, all suffering will fade within a century.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Self-care’ always translates to ‘other-care’ unless I’m so selfish that I ‘don’t care’. And if that’s the case, then neither matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People are less likely to see you as a threat if they know they can trust you.”
― Germany Kent

“Like I said, I had a rough upbringing. A little kindness from a stranger goes a long way.”
― Vincent H. O’Neil

“Never turn your back on the light that shows you the right way, because in this world not everyone finds a light when they are looking for a way in the darkness! It is not moral to refuse to be blessed, to turn down a helping hand!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you want to help people, you don’t need no language – it’ll all be written on your face.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze

“Today, somehow in some way, I will manage to help somebody who doesn’t look or talk like me, someone who is in need and doesn’t care about the outer me, someone who is hopefully able to recognize a sincere gesture of kindness and love.”
― Germany Kent

“No person is so worthless that he/she cannot help someone else. And everyone needs help…sometime.”
― Abhishek Ratna

“The best kind of existence is to exist for others.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Butterflies are short-lived nevertheless do not profess they help in pollination”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A heroic woman always offers a helping hand, because she has a special way of putting things together.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“No matter how many deadly weapons come your way, stand on guard as a fierce and fervent soldier protecting the meek and the innocent.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The greatest purpose in life, the greatest achievement one could ever have in life, the greatest satisfaction one could ever get in life can only be found in the service of others.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia

“it’s hard to help fix someone if you’re still broken yourself.”
― Mya Waechtler

“Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“True purpose dies when true people who are suppose to keep it alive fail to give it life”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I seen women take this kind a’ help from a man with a look a’ relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.”
― Beth Lewis

“When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“An important factor for team success is helping every team member”
― Sunday Adelaja

“God gave you two hands one belongs to you and the other to your fellow man.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“We all have the power to influence others. It is up to us, whether we are going to abuse that power to manipulate people or use it to help them.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The greatest happiness in the world is in helping the people you don’t know and seeing them happy.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Want to shake the hand of a holy person? Then shake the hand of a helping hand!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.”
― Jose A. Aviles

“Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.”
― Thiruvalluvar

“The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.”
― John Southard

“Don’t act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others”
― Diyar Harraz

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NETWORKING QUOTES

NETWORKING QUOTES

“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
― Dan Simmons

“Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.”
― Jeffrey Gitomer

“Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.”
― Michele Jennae

“The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.”
― Keith farrazzi

“At this juncture, the ‘world’ is no longer confined to just one or two places; it has spread worldwide.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Don’t wait until you desperately need a social network to begin developing one.”
― Frank Sonnenberg

“Having someone’s contact doesn’t guarantee you a relationship with the person.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“I put myself in places where I feel like I don’t “belong” to get used to its for when I am there.”
― Janna Cachola

“It is the Power of Network and NOT Net-Worth!”
― P. Anshu

“Networking is nothing more than building relationships with people who would be inclined to help you in your career management.”
― Aaron Basko

“Networking isn’t just about making connections; it’s the lifeline to unlocking better job opportunities in today’s competitive landscape.”
― Dax Bamania

“Where you are in five years depends on who you meet today!”
― George Stamatiss

“When you’re struggling on the job, tap into your network to attain clarity on your next step and for help in taking it.”
― Tamara S Raymond

“Make sure you know someone somewhere, who knows someone somewhere. Somehow, you will need someone to get somewhere.”
― Geoffrey Ocaya

“Networking isn’t about lead generation – it’s about generating life.”
― Robert J. Braathe

“I’m old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground. – Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“If you are a good artiste you must get work on the basis of your talent and hard work. How can a self respecting artiste do networking to get work?”
― Avijeet Das

“It is said, “your Net-worth is about your Networks, your networks are your contacts, your contacts are your contracts.”
― Kinoti J.C.

“Dig a well before you’re thirsty, but dig over water.”
― Richie Norton

“Sharing emotional experiences works wonders in connecting with people who are otherwise quite different.”
― Abhishek Ratna

“You deserve a circle of inclusion and influence, but it’s up to you to create it.”
― Richie Norton

“Bajulação consiste em dizer a um outro homem justamente o que ele pensa acerca de si mesmo.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Thinking of others isn’t a problem as long as you don’t fall into the trap of giving and never asking for anything in return from the people you’re networking with.”
― Fran Hauser

“Traditional Networking: “Trying to get media attention.”
Guerrilla Networking: “Doing such cool things that the media are vying for your attention.”
― Monroe Mann

“Figure out how to get into the networks because they are what amplifies your learnings, give you access to opportunity, information and Intelligence to know what to do.”
― Reid Hoffman

“When you give freely to others, not only do you increase your likability and aid other people, you almost always get something unintended in return.”
― Michelle Lederman

“When you can’t yet give back directly for help you’ve received, pay it forward. And trust that you may well get your change to directly help the people who have selflessly helped you.”
― Michelle Lederman

“Stories connect us at a human level that factual statements and logical arguments can’t possibly match.”
― Steve Woodruff

“Your audience is waiting for your stories. They have memory slots tailor-made to light up and remember you.”
― Steve Woodruff

“There is extraordinary value in doing things for others simply because you want to, not because you expect anything in return.”
― Michelle Tillis Lederman

“All of the great successful people in history all had one thing in common, and did that one thing very well, and consistently. What was it? Consciously or not, these people focused on becoming the the type of person other people wanted to meet. They did not go out trying to meet people.”
― Monroe Mann

“Not all business is good business, and not every customer is a good customer.”
― Steve Woodruff

“There’s plenty of money in any niche where you’re scratching a genuine business niche.”
― Steve Woodruff

“There are ten thousand opportunities on the horizon. The pie keeps growing and, in a rapidly evolving marketplace, white spaces and blue oceans will continue to surround us.”
― Steve Woodruff

“Networking is more than connecting with people or ideas. It’s about connecting with people and ideas ad then reconnecting again and again and seeing more clearly because of the connections.”
― Brent M. Jones

“The most unprofessional people are the ones that try to be professional.”
― Richie Norton

“There are many things you can successfully fake in business…but a good golf swing isn’t one of them.”
― Bobby Darnell

“with the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking.”
― Neal Stephenson

“Nobody cares about you, your brand, or your company. You’re irrelevant…until proven otherwise.”
― Steve Woodruff

“If I can reach further, it is by connecting with influential nodes”
― Gohar Khan

“True MLM Leaders Must Stay Away from Hypocrisy And Propaganda in the Network Marketing Industry”
― Olawale Daniel

“Networking marketing has finally gone mainstream. It is time for you to legitimately earn from the knowledge economy.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Sharing what is real about you is the key to building real relationships with others”
― Michelle Lederman

“Stay open to changing your perception of people as your connection with them grows.”
― Michelle Lederman

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OPPORTUNITY QUOTES

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
― Stephen Richards

“…one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
― Markus Zusak

“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”
― Stephen Richards

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
― Alexander Graham Bell

“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!”
― Richard Branson

“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
― Stephen Richards

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
― Sarah Caldwell

“No matter how small you start, always dream big.”
― Stephen Richards

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
― Roger Von Oech

“It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.”
― Stephen Richards

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
― Patti Roberts

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
― Sun Tzu

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.”
― Herbert Hoover

“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
― Toba Beta

“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”
― George S. Clason

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.”
― William Blake

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.”
― Toni Sorenson

“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”
― Marcel Proust

“Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
― Peter O’Toole

“Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Still I promise myself, “Next time I will do better” in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a “next time.”
― Robin Hobb

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
― Doris Lessing

“Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.”
― Stephen Richards

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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― Eric Hoffer

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
― Robert Kennedy

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MINDFULNESS QUOTES

MINDFULNESS QUOTES

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”
― Pema Chödrön

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma

“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L’Amour

“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
― Evita Ochel

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”
― Allan Lokos

“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
― Doug Dillon

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”
― Amit Ray

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
― Amit Ray

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Lawrence Binyon

“Happiness is not constant; it is cyclical. Happiness is broad and resilient, and the happiest people still experience negative feelings.”
― Robert Gill Jr

“Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”
― Amit Ray

“My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
― Mary Doria Russell

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.”
― Doug Dillon

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
― Eric Schmidt

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”
― Allan Lokos

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SELF AWARENESS QUOTES [BLOG#23]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult

“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
― Janis Joplin

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
― John Lennon

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” -Socrates”
― Socrates

“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray

“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions…And you come to remember your true authentic self.”
― Wendy E. Slater

“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
― Albert Camus

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
― Aisha Mirza

“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott

“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett

“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow

“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May

“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
― Thomas Merton

“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
― Madeline Claire Franklin

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TEAMWORK QUOTES

TEAMWORK QUOTES

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
― Michael Jordan

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
― Phil Jackson

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.”
― Patrick Lencioni

“It’s as simple as this. When people don’t unload their opinions and feel like they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.”
― Patrick Lencioni

“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.”
― Chris Bradford

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
― Vesta M. Kelly

“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”
― Paul W. Bryant

“If you are working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all of the team members. Moreover, if you do not want to discuss with mediocre people, there is a greater possibility of the outcome to go further below average.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“If you are working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all of the team members.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“If Kingdoms wish to move quickly, they must go alone. If we wish to go far, we must go together.”
― E.Y. Laster

“My need to show what I can do is keeping me from finding out what other people can do and what we can do together.”
― Kate Murphy

“Alone you can do great things. But together, you can truly expand upon that.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Leaders are talent coordinators. We find the talent, foster talent and know where the individual fits in to create a dynamic team”
― Janna Cachola

“According to me, teamwork means, you’re in my team.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Our job as leaders is to find ways for individuals to participate to their full potential”
― Janna Cachola

“Great leaders don’t just establish a following; they create an army of leaders who are empowered to think for themselves and become their
own heroes!”
― Felecia Etienne

“Leadership isn’t about having all the answers, it’s about knowing which questions to ask and inspiring your whole team to reach their full potential.”
― Felecia Etienne

“Planning and teamwork can bring you closer to perfection than working in isolation”
― Sukant Ratnakar

“Working alone requires discipline but working together is virtual to be developed and an art to be learned.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Leadership in crisis means leading with love, leading with heart,leading with kindness. We dont need to react like other businesses, if we are leading the way we need to lead with love.”
― Janna Cachola

“Crisis makes us make decisions based on results and not what is right.”
― Janna Cachola

“No pursuit of knowledge is a solitary venture, and greatness is often born from the coming together of curious minds.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Teamwork exposes us to diverse perspectives, broadening our understanding and enriching our explorations.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“A team is a team with its performance, always”
― Sadaf Mehreen

“A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.”
― Gordon Korman

“Always remember that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming freight train. You are the freight train. Choose to gently lay down your own tracks and keep going.”
― Sasha Kanthan

“Exclusivity detracts collaboration.
Inclusivity attracts participation.”
― Janna Cachola

“A team is very much like a chain. The weakest link in the chain will affect the entire strength of that chain.”
― Pooja Agnihotri

“There is no ‘I’ in Team, but there is in achievement.”
― Mark Villarea

“Teamwork is not a game for the selfish.
It is for those with the mindset that a win for one is a win for all.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“It’s not the quality of the man, it’s the quality of the team.”
― Garth Stein

“Teamwork is a dance—engrossing to perform and exciting to watch.”
― Christopher Peterson

“every hard working man deserves a good woman, like a every woman deserves a good diamond”
― Manuel Corazzari

“Entrepreneurs don’t keep more friends, they keep the real army”
― Anuj Jasani

“Team collaboration comes when internal competition has gone.”
― Mario Maruffi

“Teamwork is not just working with each other, it is trusting each other.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The answers we seek will never be found by you or by me. They can only be founds by us.”
― Sasha Kanthan

“To lose the power of confrontation is to lose the power of unity.”
― Matthew McConaughey

“Treat challenges as an opportunity to refocus your strategies and open up new horizons.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”
― Simon Sinek

“true leadership is only revealed when is in the middle the storm”
― Manuel Corazzari

“A high-performing culture allows mistakes. Learning from mistakes keeps teams together and makes them grow.”
― Mario Maruffi

“Leading a high-performance team can be both challenging and rewarding.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Teamwork doesn’t happen without good teammates.”
― Lance Loya

“The cost of having a team is way lower than the expense of not having a team.”
― H. J. Chammas

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LEADERSHIP QUOTES

LEADERSHIP QUOTES

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
― Dolly Parton

“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”
― Tom Peters

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
― Robert E. Lee

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”
― Patrick Ness

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”
― Ken Blanchard

“Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
― Peter Drucker

“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― John Quincy Adams

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