20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Obstacle Is The Way” by Ryan Holiday

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Think And Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Getting Things Done” by David Allen

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Deep Work” by Cal Newport

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The 5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman

20 Inspiring Quotes from “How To Win Friends And Influence People” by Dale Carnegie

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Magic Of Thinking Big” by David Joseph Schwartz

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Quiet” by Susan Cain

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Big Magic ” by Elizabeth Gilbert

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown

20 Inspiring Quotes from “How To Stop Worrying And Start Living” by Dale Carnegie

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor Frankl

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Courage to be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The 48 Laws Of Power” by Robert Greene

20 Inspiring Quotes from “You Are A Badass” by Jen Sincero

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck” by Mark Manson

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Best Self” by Mike Bayer

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Thinking Fast And Slow” by Daniel Kahneman

20 Inspiring Quotes from “Atomic Habits” by James Clear

20 Inspiring Quotes from “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho

Do you have trouble keeping your house and office clean? Maybe you’re always running out of storage space at home? You can finally clean your living or working spaces by following the KonMari method described in this book. More significantly, having your house in order will result in a deep mental shift that will completely alter your life.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo explains why you should clean up, and the essential concepts and philosophies. This book explains the KonMari process, how to arrange each category, and how to avoid becoming cluttered again. 

Notable quotes

• “But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.”
• “The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.”
• “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”
• “Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.”
• “The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.”
• “Imagine what it would be like to have a bookshelf filled only with books that you really love. Isn’t that image spellbinding? For someone who loves books, what greater happiness could there be?”
• “No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.”
• “People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.”
• “Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong. Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.”
• “For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. To avoid missing that moment, I recommend that you keep your collection small.”
• “The true purpose of a present is to be received.”
• “We should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of.”
• “When you come across something that you cannot part with, think carefully about its true purpose in your life. You’ll be surprised at how many of the things you possess have already fulfilled their role. By acknowledging their contribution and letting them go with gratitude, you will be able to truly put the things you own, and your life, in order. In the end, all that will remain are the things that you really treasure. To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose.”
• “Visible mess helps distract us from the true source of the disorder.”
• “There’s no need to finish reading books that you only got halfway through. Their purpose was to be read halfway.”
• “I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.”
• “People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.”
• “It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you do like so that you will appreciate those.”
• “The process of assessing how you feel about the things you own, identifying those that have fulfilled their purpose, expressing your gratitude, and bidding them farewell, is really about examining your inner self, a rite of passage to a new life.”
• “If sweatpants are your everyday attire, you’ll end up looking like you belong in them, which is not very attractive. What you wear in the house does impact your self-image.”

Power of Now shows that every minute spent worrying about the future or mourning the past is a waste of time, as you should be living in the moment, right now, and it provides you with effective strategies to start feeling every minute as it happens.

Is being present the key to happiness?

According to Eckhart Tolle, waking up and living in the modern world may be exactly what we want. This booklet will inspire you to make positive changes in your life by giving you valuable information and inspiring suggestions.

Notable quotes

• “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
• “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
• “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”
• “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
• “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
• “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
• “…the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”
• “See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
• “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”
• “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through a lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”
• “Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there and will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender”
• “What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
• “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
• “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”
• “Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”
• “Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”
• “Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even than any movie.”
• “Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”
• “Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”
• “Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not “fit in” with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.”

The Obstacle Is The Way is a modern take on Stoicism, which helps you endure life’s struggles with grace and resilience by drawing lessons from ancient heroes, former presidents, modern actors, and athletes, and how they turned adversity into success through the power of perception, action, and will.

You might wonder if there is a way to turn problems into opportunities. Ryan Holiday demonstrates in this book that there is a way for us to convert seemingly hopeless situations into successes. And all of this while employing various philosophical ideas. 

Notable quotes

• “It is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”
• “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
• “Think progress, not perfection.”
• “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”
• “We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.”
• “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”
• “If an emotion can’t change the condition or the situation you’re dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one. But it’s what I feel. Right, no one said anything about not feeling it. No one said you can’t even cry. Forget “manliness.” If you need to take a moment, by all means, go ahead. Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.”
• “Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.”
• “Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”
• “For all species other than us humans, things just are what they are. Our problem is that we’re always trying to figure out what things mean—why things are the way they are. As though the why matters. Emerson put it best: “We cannot spend the day in explanation.” Don’t waste time on false constructs.”
• “The only guarantee, ever, is that things will go wrong. The only thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation. Because the only variable we control completely is ourselves.”
• “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.”
• “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”
• “We’ve all done it. Said: “I am so [overwhelmed, tired, stressed, busy, blocked, outmatched].” And then what do we do about it? Go out and party. Or treat ourselves. Or sleep in. Or wait. It feels better to ignore or pretend. But you know deep down that isn’t going to truly make it any better. You’ve got to act. And you’ve got to start now.”
• “Andrew Carnegie famously put it. There’s nothing shameful about sweeping. It’s just another opportunity to excel—and to learn. But you, you’re so busy thinking about the future, you don’t take any pride in the tasks you’re given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn’t who I am, it doesn’t matter. Foolishness. Everything we do matters—whether it’s making smoothies while you save up money or studying for the bar—even after you already achieved the success you sought.”
• “In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer.”
• “Failure shows us the way—by showing us what isn’t the way.”
• “You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.”
• “Remember that this moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it “represents” or it “means” or “why it happened to you.”
• “To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.”

Meditations is a compilation of 12 volumes written by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius that will teach you to Stoic philosophy, the notion of logic, and self-discipline, and give you trust that the world’s direction is correct. This book, a wonderful compilation of Marcus Aurelius’ personal writings, will help you realize that simple and truthful concepts may be the most important things to live life to the fullest. Things pass, as do people and their emotions, but what does not pass is the effort we put into growing as individuals. This book is an eye-opening read that will challenge your views.  

Notable quotes

• “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
• “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
• “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
• “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
• “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
• “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
• “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
• “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
• “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
• “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
• “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
• “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
• “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
• “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?”
• “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
• “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
• “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
• “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
• “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

 Rhonda Byrne’s  Secret is a self-help book on the power of positive thinking. According to the book, like attracts like, which implies that emitting good energy will be highly useful since you will attract positive things to you. Byrne claimed that good thinking attracts favorable results.

Simply believing in what you desire to achieve or become will result in you being it. The book describes the secret mainly on the law of attraction but also emphasizes gratitude and imagery.

Notable quotes

• “Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.”
• “There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change! ”
• “There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”
• “You become what you think about most… But you also attract what you think about most.”
• “Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.”
• “Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way, you are right.”
• “Your thoughts become things!”
• “The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”
• “If you are feeling good, it is because you are thinking good thoughts .”
• “Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
• “Instead of focusing on the world’s problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education, and peace. :-)”
• “Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
• “Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.”
• “You will attract everything that you require. If it’s the money you need you will attract it. If it’s people you need you’ll attract them. You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you’re going to be attracted to things and they’re going to be attracted to you. But it literally moves into physical reality with and through you. And it does that by law.”
• “Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force.”
• “It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. ”
• “See the things that you want as already yours.”
• “Everything else you see and experience in this world is an effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”
• “You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts. ”
• “Food cannot cause you to put on weight unless you think it can.”

“The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale is about how you can keep your heart and thoughts free of hatred and anxiety. Living simply means expecting less and giving more. Give light, put yourself aside, and consider others. You’ll see a difference after a week of using them.

The book’s content focuses on teachings on the power of thinking in shaping reality, how to create trust in order to clarify life objectives, and how to deal with challenges. of contemporary life. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s arguments, you could discover that confidence, optimism, and thankfulness for people around you are the keys to a happy life. throughout these pages.  

Notable quotes

• “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
• “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
• “I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”
• “Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
• “Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.”
• “Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient”
• “The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
• “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
• “YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”
• “When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”
• “To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”
• “We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”
• “It is significant that the word “holiness” derives from a word meaning “wholeness” and the word “meditation,” usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word “medication.” The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.”
• “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence, you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.”
• “when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading “occupied.”
• “The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”
• “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
• “Hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This”
• “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.”
• “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”

“Outliers” illustrates why the concept of the “self-made man” is a myth and what genuinely lies behind the achievement of the finest individuals in their area, which is typically a succession of fortunate occurrences, uncommon chances, and other external variables beyond our control.

Are those regarded as great achievers distinct from the rest of the world? Malcolm Gladwell answers this question, and more, in a book that puts the backgrounds of those outstanding achievers into context. Being that type of person, he claims, is about much more than what you are like. 

Notable quotes

• “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
• “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from.”
• “Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
• “It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”
• “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
• “Achievement is talent plus preparation”
• “It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”
• “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
• “Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”
• “I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don’t work. People don’t rise from nothing…It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t.”
• “Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social, and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”
• “We overlook just how large a role we all play–and by ‘we’ I mean society–in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.”
• “Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”
• “Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”
• “Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
• “To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success–the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history–with a society that provides opportunities for all.”
• “Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung…We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.”
• “My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”
• “The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
• “It wasn’t an excuse. It was a fact. He’d had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”

The 4-Hour Workweek is a step-by-step guide to breaking free from the constraints of a corporate job, getting started a business to support your ideal lifestyle, and living life like a billionaire without having to be one.

The world is always changing, yet certain things seem to remain constant. If you feel that your business is trapping you in a life that isn’t the best for you, or if you’re plain overworked, while other people appear to be doing very little and living their lives to the fullest, you should read this book to figure out what you’re doing wrong. 

Notable quotes

• “But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.”
• “People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
• “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
• “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
• “The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
• “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
• “The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”
• “To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.”
• “Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner”
• “Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you’re moving.”
• “Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”
• “Many a false step was made by standing still.”
• “It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.”
• “Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.”
• “Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
• “Life is too short to be small.”
• “Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.”
• “The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.”
• “Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”
• “$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.”

Think And Grow Rich is a compilation of the 13 most frequent behaviors of wealthy and successful people, gleaned from 20 years of research on over 500 people.

In life, you must take some measures to reach your goals, yet you must also avoid certain steps to be successful. This book is a must-read for your personal growth since it is filled with timeless information and sound guidance. 

Notable quotes

• “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
• “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
• “Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
• “A quitter never wins-and-a the winner never quits.”
• “An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”
• “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
• “More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself”
• “Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”
• “We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand.”
• “I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing a love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them, and in myself.”
• “To win the big stakes in this changing world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.”
• “Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
• “There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.”
• “One who has loved truly can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral and transitory. It comes when it pleases and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.”
• “Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the ‘other self” is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.”
• “Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
• “There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
• “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
• “Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”
• “Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.”