Ebook - Danh ngôn tiếng Anh theo chủ đề (Thoughts for Success)

Ebook - Danh ngôn tiếng Anh theo chủ đề (Thoughts for Success)

Success

Your Daily Companion For Inspiration And Positive Thinking

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THOUGHTS FOR SUCCESS

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Contents and/or cover may not be reproduced in whole or in part

in any form without the express written content of the Publiser.

Introduction 1Change 3Courage 7Dreams 11Entrepreneurship 15Failure 19Faith 23Ideas 26Innovation 30Leadership 33Management 36Marketing 39People 42Perseverance 45Planning 48Relationship 51Service 54Spiritual 57Strategy 60Success 63Vision 66Wealth 69

Contents

First of all, I would like to congratulate

the readers of this inspirational booklet

for taking the first step towards positive

change

As much as we all fear change, change

itself is inevitable That is why I warn

readers that the content could change

their life We all want to be successful,

happy, fulfilled and have better things in

life, yet we are afraid of change

Certainly with change comes the

unknown and uncertainty That is why so

many people are afraid of it But is it

really that bad? More often than not, it is

the golden opportunity to improve and

achieve greater heights in life

As we move through life, we have to face

all kinds of problems, difficulties,

I believe there is a way to overcome all

‘negative’ things and the answer lies in the power of our minds Nevertheless our mind is like a muscle Just as you need to exercise to strengthen the muscle, you got to ‘exercise’ your minds through the power of thoughts

Basically a thought consists of words and images that not only give meaning to our world but also create our real world

So if you want to change or improve your real world or circumstances, you got to start from your minds And you got to feed your minds with positive thinking,

affirmations and imagination

So where do you get the ‘raw materials’

to strengthen your minds and resolve in

achieving what you want? In answering

to that question, this book is born as a

way of programming our minds if you

like in our quest for success and

happiness

While it is important to take action, very

often we give up in our journey towards

our dreams, goals and successes It takes

a strong will and determination to be a

success So it is my hope that the readers

will read and feed their minds with

positive thinking of other people who

have proven to be successful

By doing so, it is like modeling the

successful programming in the minds of

these successful people and ‘copy’ it to

your own brain It is like copying a file from one brain to another

In nutshell, if you think like successful people, you too would become a successful man or woman It is simply because it works and millions of people have achieved greater heights in their life through the power of thoughts.All the best to you!

Yours truly

William Leam

C-Channels Sdn Bhd

“Be the change you want to see

in the world”

- Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot change your destination

overnight, but you can change your

direction overnight

- Jim Rohn, American speaker

and author He is famous for

motivational audio programs

for Business and Life.

Become a student of change It is the

only thing that will remain constant

- Anthony J D’Angelo, Founder

of The Collegiate EmPowerment

Company and creator of The

Inspiration Book Series

You cannot control what happens to you,

but you can control your attitude toward

what happens to you, and in that, you

will be mastering change rather than

allowing it to master you

- Brian Tracy, Motivational

Speaker and Business Author

If we don’t change, we don’t grow If we

don’t grow, we are not really living

- Siddharta Buddha Gautama

Change your thoughts, and you change your world

- Norman Vincent Peale,

American writer

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value

- Stephen R Covey

Change

Human potential is the same for all

Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong

Absolutely wrong You are deceiving

yourself We all have the power of

thought - so what are you lacking? If you

have willpower, then you can change

anything It is usually said that you are

your own master

- Dalai Lama, Head of the

Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan

Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize

Winner

Do not let circumstances control you You

change your circumstances

- Jackie Chan,

famous movie star and director

You can change your beliefs so they

empower your dreams and desires

Create a strong belief in yourself and

what you want

- Marcia Wieder, American

motivational speaker and author.

Change is not merely necessary to life –

it is life

- Alvin Toffl er,

American author of Science-fi ction

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

- Plutarch, Ancient Greek

biographer and author

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything

- George Bernard Shaw, 1925

Nobel Prize for Literature recipient

Don’t manage - lead change before you have to

- Jack Welch

Change is the essence of life Be willing

to surrender what you are for what you could become

- Unknown

“To change

is diffi cult Not to change

is fatal.”

- Anonymous

“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”

- Dr Robert Anthony Self-help author

Courage conquers all things

- Ovid, Ancient Roman classical

poet and author of Metamorphoses

Success is not fi nal, failure is not fatal: it

is the courage to continue that counts

- Winston Churchill, British orator

and prime minister during World

War II

Courage is the power to let go of the

familiar

- Raymond Lindquist

You will never do anything in this world

without courage It is the greatest

quality of the mind next to honor

- Aristotle, Ancient Greek

philosopher, scientist and

physician

If you could get up the courage to begin,

you have the courage to succeed

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American

poet, lecturer and essayist

What would life be if we had no courage

to attempt anything?

- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday You develop it by surviving diffi cult times and challenging adversity

- Epicurus, Greek philosopher

Courage

Courage and perseverance have a

magical talisman, before which

diffi culties disappear and obstacles

vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams, American

6th US president (1825-29)

We can never be certain of our

courage until we have faced danger

- François de la Rochefoucauld,

French classical author

Courage is resistance to fear,

mastery of fear - not absence of fear

- Mark Twain, American humorist,

writer and lecturer

Courage is not the absence of despair; it

is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair

- Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear

- Ambrose Redmoon

The secret of happiness is freedom The secret of freedom is courage

- Thucydides, Ancient Greek

historians and author

Courage is always rewarded

- Kenny Loggins

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte, French general, politician and emperor

“Laugh often, Dream big, Reach for the stars!”

“Laugh often, Dream big, Reach for the stars!”

- Anonymous

Build a dream and

the dream will build you

- Robert H Schuller

There is nothing like a dream

to create the future

- Victor Hugo

Man, alone, has the power to transform

his thoughts into physical reality; man,

alone, can dream and make his dreams

come true

- Napolean Hill

A dream is your creative vision for your

life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become

comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

- Denis Waitley, American

motivational speaker and author of

self-help books

The biggest adventure you can take

is to live the life of your dreams

- Oprah Winfrey, American

television personality,actress and producer

Dreams are renewable No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born

- Dale E Turner

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams

- Ralph Lauren,

American fashion designer

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past

- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Chinese Head of the Chinese

Nationalist Government in exile on Taiwan

Dream

Too many of us are not living our dreams

because we are living our fears

- Les Brown, American songwriter

If you can dream it, you can do it Always

remember that this whole thing was

started with a dream and a mouse

- Walt Disney, American pioneer of

animated cartoon fi lms and creator

of Disneyland.

You’re in the midst of a war: a battle

between the limits of a crowd seeking

the surrender of your dreams, and the

power of your true vision to create and

contribute It is a fi ght between those

who will tell you what you cannot do,

and that part of you that knows and has

always known that we are more than our

environment; and that a dream, backed

by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly

a reality with an imminent arrival

- Anthony Robbins

Be careful what you water your dreams with Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into

an opportunity for success Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream

- Lao Tzu

“When you cease

to dream you cease to live.”

- Malcolm S Forbes

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who

understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both

to their advantage.”

- Victor Kiam

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to

roll the dice with their money or

reputa-tions on the line in support of an idea or

enterprise

- Victoria Clafl in Woodhull

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as

survival, but that is exactly what it is and

what nurtures creative thinking

- Anita Roddick, Founder of

BodyShop

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’ That’s

what you’re called when you don’t have

a job.”

- Ted Turner, broadcasting

entrepreneur

You say I started out with practically

nothing, but that isn’t correct We all

start with all there is It’s how we use it

that makes things possible

- Henry Ford, Automobile

Entrepreneur

“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into

an opportunity You have the choice You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser The choice is yours and yours alone Refuse to throw in the towel Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel It

is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”

- Mary Kay Ash, founder of

Mary Kay Cosmetics

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than

by mental capacities

- Walter Dill Scott

Entrepreneurship

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it

living someone else’s life Don’t be

trapped by dogma - which is living with

the results of other people’s thinking

Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions

drown out your own inner voice And

most important, have the courage to

follow your heart and intuition They

somehow already know what you truly

want to become Everything else is

secondary

- Steve Jobs, American

Entrepreneur and

Apple co-Founder

“Business opportunities are like buses,

there’s always another one coming.”

- Richard Branson, founder of

Virgin Enterprises

“The important thing is not being afraid

to take a chance Remember, the greatest

failure is to not try Once you fi nd

something you love to do, be the best at

doing it.”

- Debbi Fields, founder of

Mrs Fields Cookies

Find a niche market opportunity, exploit

it, then reap the benefi ts while at all times searching for your next niche to enter, move to make, and edge to employ

- Ryan P Allis, entrepreneur

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as

- Michael Faraday, English

physicist who contributed greatly

to the understanding of electromagnetism

“Our success has really been based on

partnerships from the

very beginning.”

- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing but

in rising every time we fail.”

- Confucius.

Failure should be our teacher, not our

undertaker Failure is delay, not defeat It

is a temporary detour, not a dead end

Failure is something we can avoid only

by saying nothing, doing nothing, and

“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you

for great responsibilities”

- Napolean Hill

Remember the two benefi ts 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 hard to fail, but it is worse never to

have tried to succeed

- Theodore Roosevelt, American

26th US president (1901-09)

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in He treats his failures simply as practice shots

- Charles F Kettering, American

engineer, inventor of the electric starter

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

- Eli Khamarov

What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don’t see is the 99 percent which are my failures

We never learn from our successes,

we learn from our failures

- John Naisbitt

Failure

Failure is not an option

Everyone has to succeed

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many of life’s failures are people who did

not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

- Thomas A Edison

“Failure is the tuition you

pay for success.”

- Walter Brunell

There is something good in all seeming

failures You are not to see that now

Time will reveal it Be patient

- Swami Sivananda

Indian Yoga master, physician,

monk and founder of The Divine

Life Society

It is often the failure who is the pioneer

in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression

- Eric Hoffer, American writer

I’ve failed over and over and over again

in my life and that is why I succeed

- Michael Jordan, American

NBA basketball player, widely considered to be the greatest player in the history of the game

A minute’s success pays the failure of years

- Robert Browning

Success and failure We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not They’re companions - the hero and the sidekick

- Laurence Shames

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed

is strong enough.”

- Og Mandino

“Faith will move mountains”

“Faith will move mountains”

- Proverb

Faith is taking the fi rst step even when

you don’t see the whole staircase

- Martin Luther King, Jr.,

American baptist minister

and civil-rights leader

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid

of meeting challenges, and I believed in

Faith consists in believing when it is

beyond the power of reason to believe

- Voltaire, French philosopher and

writer

The only known cure for fear is faith

- Lena Kellogg Sadler

In order to succeed, we must fi rst believe that we can

- Oprah Winfrey

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing

- Bob Proctor

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next

- Norman Vincent Peale

Faith

What we can or cannot do, what we

consider possible or impossible, is rarely

a function of our true capability It is

more likely a function of our beliefs

about who we are

- Anthony Robbins

If you think you can win, you can

Faith is necessary to victory

- William Hazlitt, British writer

Have faith in your dreams and someday

your rainbow will come smiling through

No matter how your heart is grieving, if

you keep believing, the dream that you

wish will come true

- Anonymous

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will fi nd the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

- David J Schwartz

We would accomplish many more things

if we did not think of them as impossible

- Chretien Malesherbes

It’s the repetition of affi rmations that leads to belief And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin

to happen

- Claude M Bristol

Fear clogs; Faith liberates

- Elbert Hubbard,American editor,

publisher and writer

“Miracles happen to those who believe in

them.”

- Bernhard Berenson

“Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered Such ideas need

to be produced.”

- Edward de Bono, Maltese psychologist and writer, leading authority in fi eld of creative thinking

Ideas

Ideas control the world

- James A Garfi eld, American

president

To stay ahead, you must have your

next idea waiting in the wings

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter,

American business speaker and

consultant

Almost all new ideas have a certain

aspect of foolishness when they are

fi rst produced

- Alfred North Whitehead, British

mathematician and philosopher

The air is full of ideas They are knocking

you in the head all the time You only

have to know what you want, then forget

it, and go about your business Suddenly,

the idea will come through It was there

all the time

- Henry Ford, American

industrialist and entrepreneur.

There is no force so powerful as

an idea whose time has come

- Everett Dirksen, American

senator

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas

I’m frightened of the old ones

- John Cage, American

An idea that is developed and put into

action is more important than an idea

that exists only as an idea

- Buddha

An absolutely new idea is one of the

rarest things known to man

- Thomas More, English humanist,

statesman and chancellor of

England

Most executives, many scientists, and

almost all business school graduates

believe that if you analyze data, this will

give you new ideas Unfortunately, this

belief is totally wrong The mind can only

see what it is prepared to see

- Edward de Bono

Capital isn’t that important in business Experience isn’t that important You can get both of these things What is important is ideas

- Harvey S Firestone, founder of

the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art

An even lonelier struggle To some a blessing To others a curse It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea

- Lou Dorfsman

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are

no better than dreams

- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

American poet, lecturer and essayist

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to fi nd intellectual capital - the world’s best talents and greatest ideas

Think out of the box,

be innovative.

Innovation

Innovation is not the product of logical

thought, although the result is tied to

logical structure

- Albert Einstein

Just as energy is the basis of life itself,

and ideas the source of innovation, so is

innovation the vital spark of all human

change, improvement and progress

- Ted Levitt

Innovation is the creation of the new or

the re-arranging of the old in a new way

- Michael Vance

When you innovate, you’ve got to be

prepared for everyone telling you you’re

nuts

- Larry Ellison

I think all great innovations are built on rejections

- Louis Ferdinand Celine,

French writer and physician

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations

- Steve Jobs, American

Entrepreneur Apple co-Founder

Innovation is the central issue

in economic prosperity

- Michael Porter

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business

- Frederick W Smith

You have all the reason in the world

to achieve your grandest dreams

Imagination plus innovation equals

realization

- Denis Waitley

Discoveries are often made by not

following instructions, by going off the

main road, by trying the untried

- Frank Tyger

Creativity is thinking up new things

Innovation is doing new things

- Theodore Levitt

There are men so conservative they

believe nothing should be done for the

fi rst time

- Unknown

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else

- Harold R McAlindon

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience

- Hyman G Rickover

Innovation distinguishes between

a leader and a follower

- Steve Jobs

A dream with courage is innovation A dream without courage is a delusion

- Unknown

“The heart and soul of

the company is creativity

and innovation.”

- Robert Iger

Be a leader, develop your leadership skills.

Be a leader, develop your leadership skills.

Eff ective leadership is not about making

speeches or being liked; leadership is

defi ned by results not attributes

- Peter F Drucker, American

educator and writer

Leadership is infl uence

- John C Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce

more leaders, not more followers

- Ralph Nade, American activist

and lawyer

Actions, not words, are the ultimate

results of leadership

- Bill Owens

Leadership is the capacity and will to

rally men and women to a common

purpose and the character which inspires

confi dence

- Unknown

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don’t see themselves as leaders

- Stephen R Covey

We know that leadership is very much related to change As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for eff ective leadership

- John Kotter

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people,

of getting things done

- Dwight David Eisenhowe,

American 34th president (1953-61)

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people

- Indira Gandhi, Indian politician

and prime minister

Leadership

Leadership off ers an opportunity to make

a diff erence in someone’s life, no matter

what the project

- Bill Owens

Leadership is the challenge to be

something more than average

- Jim Rohn, American speaker

and author

Leadership is the wise use of power

Power is the capacity to translate

intention into reality and sustain it

- Warren G Bennis, Author of

the ‘Becoming A Leader’

The only safe ship in a storm is

leadership

- Faye Wattleton

The history of the world is full of men

who rose to leadership, by sheer force of

self-confi dence, bravery and tenacity

- Mahatma Gandhi

A leader takes people where they want

to go A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be

- Rosalynn Carter

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery Everyone feels that he or she makes a diff erence to the success of the organization When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning

- Warren G Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet

- Theodore Hesburgh, American

Clergyman, University President

“Leadership is action,

not position.”

- Donald H McGannon

“Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.”

- Stephen R Covey