A Quote, once dad said to me when i was very young, is the life of a person in short. It actually takes a LIFE TIME to be able to tell or write a well said proverb/quote. This is something amazing to me. It all means then that we have the gist of some thousands of people who having experienced the joys, the pains of life expressed the lessons of their lives through their quotes.
A quote at times can actually stir you to the core and bring in fresh surge of hope, energy and optimism. For those who watched a telugu film called "SYE" (in S S Rajamouli's direction), do you remember the opening scene which starts with a Vince Lombardi's quote:
While this has been my all time favorite, there are many many such quotes/proverbs which I hold close to my heart and save. I strongly believe that any quote which makes you clench your fist and jaw; which makes you stand and fill you with 10000 Watts of Power, in fact has the potential to change the course of history. Forever.
My close pals who knew my love for stirring quotes, constantly make sure that they send one when they encounter one. I wholeheartedly thank each one of them now.
Napolean Hill is an awesome personality to me. For those who don't know about his uniqueness, you would be surprised to know that he studied for over a decade about only one topic - " Why successful people are successful ?" . Notice the word - DECADE. WTH?!!
He was commissioned by the then business tycoon Mr. Andrew Carnegie who gave him opportunity to meet most successful people on the planet in the early 1900s. Napolean Hill , having interviewed and extensively researched the topic called success, came out with blockbuster books Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of success. And in the process, firmly established a genre called Personal Success Literature. I personally believe that , yes, they might not have just lied in the quotes. C'mon Dude, they've lived researching on it for decades.
At this point, I want to make it clear( to me and otherwise), my interest not lies in becoming either the richest person or the most powerful man. But , my interest lies in exploring the true potential. The maximum that a whole heartedly committed human being can actually imagine, believe and achieve in a life time. How big can it be or how small. How gigantic it could be or how fruitless. I don't know. But I am determined to explore.
One Ambani did it in thirty years, what some established business families took a century to do. When the world thought that his life is over, Lance Armstrong came back and won seven times back to back the most gruelling sports event - Tour De france. With a simple principle backed by unlimited faith and courage, an ordinary person became the father of our nation. Born in the most humble environs, a lad from rameshwaram gave the missile power to this nation and went on to become the President of India.
This power of doing something big , coming from nothing, is what amazes me. I adore all those who have given their fullest in doing what they love, loving what they do and stand as a symbol of excellence. And in the process, showed to others, what a powerful desire coupled with unflinching commitment to achieve can do.
Some of my most favorite quotes by Brian Tracy and Napolean Hill (Source: www.thinkexist.com) :
A quote at times can actually stir you to the core and bring in fresh surge of hope, energy and optimism. For those who watched a telugu film called "SYE" (in S S Rajamouli's direction), do you remember the opening scene which starts with a Vince Lombardi's quote:
Any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
While this has been my all time favorite, there are many many such quotes/proverbs which I hold close to my heart and save. I strongly believe that any quote which makes you clench your fist and jaw; which makes you stand and fill you with 10000 Watts of Power, in fact has the potential to change the course of history. Forever.
My close pals who knew my love for stirring quotes, constantly make sure that they send one when they encounter one. I wholeheartedly thank each one of them now.
Napolean Hill is an awesome personality to me. For those who don't know about his uniqueness, you would be surprised to know that he studied for over a decade about only one topic - " Why successful people are successful ?" . Notice the word - DECADE. WTH?!!
He was commissioned by the then business tycoon Mr. Andrew Carnegie who gave him opportunity to meet most successful people on the planet in the early 1900s. Napolean Hill , having interviewed and extensively researched the topic called success, came out with blockbuster books Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of success. And in the process, firmly established a genre called Personal Success Literature. I personally believe that , yes, they might not have just lied in the quotes. C'mon Dude, they've lived researching on it for decades.At this point, I want to make it clear( to me and otherwise), my interest not lies in becoming either the richest person or the most powerful man. But , my interest lies in exploring the true potential. The maximum that a whole heartedly committed human being can actually imagine, believe and achieve in a life time. How big can it be or how small. How gigantic it could be or how fruitless. I don't know. But I am determined to explore.
One Ambani did it in thirty years, what some established business families took a century to do. When the world thought that his life is over, Lance Armstrong came back and won seven times back to back the most gruelling sports event - Tour De france. With a simple principle backed by unlimited faith and courage, an ordinary person became the father of our nation. Born in the most humble environs, a lad from rameshwaram gave the missile power to this nation and went on to become the President of India.
This power of doing something big , coming from nothing, is what amazes me. I adore all those who have given their fullest in doing what they love, loving what they do and stand as a symbol of excellence. And in the process, showed to others, what a powerful desire coupled with unflinching commitment to achieve can do.
Some of my most favorite quotes by Brian Tracy and Napolean Hill (Source: www.thinkexist.com) :
- “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
- “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
- “Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”
- “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”
- “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
- “Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”
- “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
- “Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
- “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
- “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
- “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...”
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire”
- “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
- “Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win / essential to success.”
- “Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”
