201
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
From Around the World
By
Irfan Alli
Copyright 2013 Irfan Alli,
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-1180-4
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CONTACT: Irfan Alli can be reached at [email protected]
In 201 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD you will learn:
1.The difference between an optimist and a pessimist.
2.Who makes the world a dangerous place.
3.The greatest thing a parent can give a child.
4.What makes something good or bad.
5.The four steps to achievement.
6.Why you should love your enemies.
7.Where champions are made.
8.How to cheer yourself up.
9.Why we must put an end to war.
10.How to achieve happiness.
11.The greatest thing a father can give his children.
12.How to get ahead in life.
13.The five enemies to peace.
14.The two mistakes that keep us from truth.
15.The importance of persistence.
16.How long it takes to destroy a reputation.
17.How to earn loyalty.
18.And much more.
Find out what thinkers around the world have to say about these and other issues by reading this book.
IRFAN ALLI was the production manager of the Canadian branch of an international engineering company for over twenty-five years and now works as a property manager.
While pursuing his professional career, he spent the last three decades in community development in the areas of motivation, leadership, education, social work and publications.
His volunteer, professional work and recreational activities has taken him all across Canada, to U.S.A., Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Guyana (South America), Pakistan, India, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and China.
He has been married for more than thirty years to the same woman and is the father of three girls, and a boy. His three daughters are married and he has a growing number of grand children. Irfan and his family live in Toronto, Canada.
In this book Irfan shares with you some of his favourite motivational quotes from around the world.
The following quotes were selected to keep you motivated. Take one at a time, ponder on it, and apply any lessons you find to make yourself a better person and give yourself a better life.
1
Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.
Spryte Loriano
2
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
3
The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs one step at a time.
Joe Girard
4
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
Laozi
5
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to suffer the consequences.
P. J. O’Rourke
6
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
7
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
8
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
9
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
10
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
11
Are you being the best you can be, or the worst that has happened to you?
Brian Vaszily
12
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash
13
How people treat you is their Karma. How you respond is yours.
Wayne Dyer
14
Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.'
Mary Kay Ash
15
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley
16
If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Mahatma Ghandi
17
How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing