Inspiring Quotes - Page 29

• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Serious, Mysterious

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• I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Patient

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• A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Warrior

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• The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Storm, Honest, Violent

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• War is not women's history.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Empowering

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• Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

  David Maister

  Focus, Want, Professionalism

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• Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opposites, Empowering, Engagement

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Fire, Play

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

  Germaine Greer

  Real, Men, Yesterday

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• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Mother, Jobs, Pain

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.310, Open Road Media

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• Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Numbers, Empowering

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

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• To think is not enough, you must think of something.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Business, Thinking

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.138, Tin House Books

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• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Running, Knowing, Bills

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• When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

  David Maister

  Proud, Professionalism, Impress

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• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  David Maister

  Successful, Visionaries, Professionalism

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kings, Inspiration

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• I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

  David Maister

  Hands, Supportive, Needs

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• America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, America

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• His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Moral Leadership, Peaceful

  Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Communication

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Giving

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights

  David Maister

  Rights, Giving, Nagging

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• I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

  David Maister

  Believe, Ifs And, Goal

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• My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

  Barack Obama

  Advice, Going Away, Pieces

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