Quotes - Chicken Soup for the Soul

Quotes Extracted from
"A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul" by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen 


1. I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.  (Edward E. Hale)

2. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. (Dr. Karl Menninger)

3. The soul is healed by being with children. (Fyodor Dostoyevski)

4. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same. (Source Unknown)

5. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

6. Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all. (Carlos Castaneda)

7. To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. (W. Clement Stone)

8. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. (Joseph Addison)

9. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

10. I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there. (Michael Jordan)

11. Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. (Leonardo da Vinci)

12. They can because they think they can. (Virgil)

Robert T. Kiyosaki Quotes

1. You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
2. Intelligence solves problems and produces more money. Money, without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
3. What do you think about me is not my business, the important thing is what I think about myself...
4. Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
5. We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.
6. Just know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills, the fear of being fired, the fear of not having enough money, the fear of starting over. That's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money... and then get angry at their boss.
7. It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.

Outliers - The Story of Success (2)

"Outliers - The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell 

Extract relating to "The 10,000-Hour Rule"

• A study done by the psychologist K. Anders Ericsson at Berlin's Academy of Music, had divided the school's violinists into 3 groups. In the first group were the stars, the students with the potential to become world-class soloists. In the second were those judged to be merely "good". In the third were the students who were unlikely to ever play  professionally and who intended to be music teachers in the public school system. 
• Everyone from all 3 groups started playing at roughly the same age, around 5 years old. In those first few years, everyone practiced roughly the same amount, about 2 - 3 hours a week. But when the students were around the age of 8, real differences started to emerge. The students who would end up the best in their class began to practice more than everyone else: 6 hours a week by age 9, 8 hours a week by age 12, 16 hours a week by age 14, and up and up, until by the age of 20 they were practicing - well over 30 hours a week. In fact, by the age of 20, the elite performers had each totaled 10,000 hours of practice. By contrast, the merely good students had totaled 8,000 hours, and the future music teachers had totaled just over 4,000 hours.
• The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals", musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Nor they could find any "grinds", people who worked harder than everyone else, yet just didn't have what it takes to break the top ranks. Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into the top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from the another is how hard he or she works. 

Nelson Mandela Quotes

1. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
2. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers the fear.
3. It always seems impossible until it's done.
4. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
5. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
6. One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
7. Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
8. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
9. You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
10. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Outliers - The Story of Success (1)

"Outliers - The Story of Success" 
by Malcolm Gladwell

Part I Opportunity - Quotes

1. People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.
2. It makes a difference when and where we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
3. The "Matthew Effect" - 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.

57 Famous Alibis by Old Man IF

57 Famous Alibis by Old Man IF
- Extract from "Think and Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill

IF I didn't have a wife and a family ...
IF I had enough "pull" ...
IF I had money ...
IF I had a good education ...
IF I could get a job ...
IF I had good health ...
IF I only had time ...
IF times were better ...
IF other people understood me ...
IF conditions around me were only different ...
IF I could live my life over again ...
IF I did not fear what "THEY" would say ...
IF I had been given a chance ...
IF I now had a chance ...
IF other people didn't "have it in for me" ...
IF nothing happens to stop me ...
IF I were only younger ...
IF I could only do what I want ...
IF I had been born rich ...
IF I could meet "the right people" ...
IF I had the talent that some people have ...
IF I dared assert myself ...
IF I only had embraced past opportunities ...
IF people didn't get on my nerves ...
IF I didn't have to keep house and look after the children ...
IF I could save some money ...
IF the boss only appreciated me ...
IF I only had somebody to help me ...
IF my family understood me ...
IF I lived in a big city ...
IF I could just get started ...
IF I were only free ...
IF I had the personality of some people ...
IF I were not so fat ...
IF my talents were known ...
IF I could just get a "break" ...
IF I could only get out of debt ...
IF I hadn't failed ...
IF I only knew how ...
IF everybody didn't oppose me ...
IF I didn't have so many worries ...
IF I could marry the right person ...
IF people weren't so dumb ...
IF my family were not so extravagant ...
IF I were sure of myself ...
IF luck were not against me ...
IF I had not been born under the wrong star ...
IF it were not true that "what is to be will be" ...
IF I did not have to work so hard ...
IF I hadn't lost my money ...
IF I lived in a different neighborhood ...
IF I didn't have a "past" ...
IF I only had a business of my own ...
IF other people would only listen to me ...
IF I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others, for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

The Welch Way - 24 Lessons from the World's Greatest CEO

"The Welch Way - 24 Lessons from the World's Greatest CEO"
by Jeffrey A. Krames

1. Lead
"What we are looking for... are leaders at every level who can energize, excite and inspire rather than enervate, depress, and control"

2. Get less formal
"You must realize how important it is to maintain the kind of corporate informality that encourages a... training class to comfortably challenge the boss' pet ideas."

3. Blow up bureaucracy
"The way to harness the power of these people is not to protect them... but to turn them loose, and get the management layers off their backs, the bureaucratic shackles off their feet and the functional barriers out of their way."

4. Face reality
"How do you bring people into the change process? Start with reality... When everybody gets the same facts, they'll generally come to the same conclusion."

5. Simplify
"You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple... Clear tough0minded people are the most simple."

6. See Change as an Opportunity
"The game is going to change, and change drastically."

7. Lead by energizing others
"We now know where productivity - real and limitless productivity - comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited, rewarded teams of people."

8. Defy tradition
"Shun the incremental and go for the leap."

9. Make intellect rule
"... the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continously learn from any source, anywhere - and to rapidly convert this learning into action - is its ultimate competitive advantage."

10. Pounce every day
"Don't sit still. Anybody sitting still, you can guarantee they're going to get their legs knocked out from under them."

11. Put values first
"Early in my career... there was way too much focus on the numbers... and a lot less on the softer values of building a team, sharing ideas, exciting others."

12. Manage less
"You can't mange self-confidence into people."

13. Involve everyone
"Business is "all about capturing intellect from every person... the more people you can capture it from, the better the intellect."

14. Rewrite your agenda
"We want to be a company that is constantly rewriting itself, shedding the past, adapting to change."

15. Live speed
"Speed is everything. It is the indispensable ingredient in competitiveness."

16. Instill confidence
"Just as surely as speed flows from simplicity, simplicity is grounded in self-confidence."

17. Set stretch goals
"... self-confident people know that it is the quality of their effort toward achieving the "impossible" that is the ultimate measure."

18. Eliminate boundaries
"Boundaryless behavior evaluates ideas based on their merit, not on the rank of the person who came up with them."

19. Articulate a vision
"Leaders - and you take anyone from Roosevelt to Churchill to Reagan - inspire people with clear versions of how things cam be done better."

20. Get good ideas from everywhere
"It is a badge of honor to learn something here, no matter where it comes from."

21. Spark other to perform
"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do."

22. Quality is your job
"Six Sigma is the most important training thing we've ever had. It's better than going to Harvard Business School."

23. Change never ends
"The wisdom may lie in changing the institution while it is still winning - reinvogarating a business, in fact, while it's making more money than anyone ever dreamed it could make."

24. Have Fun
"Leading a big company... means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously, and reminding itself constantly... that yesterday's press clippings often wrap today's fish."