Posts Tagged ‘inspiring quotes’
Once is enough…
Posted by Mush Panjwani on January 10, 2012
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10 Inspiring Quotes by Super Achievers
Posted by Mush Panjwani on November 19, 2011
“I struggled just getting the ball up to the rim level. I couldn’t do it at first.” (Kareem Abdul Jabbar – basketball champion)
“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it.” (Edward Albee – 3 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama)
“If you don’t fall down, you are not trying hard enough.” (Tenley Albright – Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater and Surgeon)
“I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.” (Maya Angelou – Poet and Historian)
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I would regret is not trying.” (Jeff Bezos – Founder of Amazon.com)
“I do not know the word ‘quit’. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” (Susan Butcher – Champion dog-sled racer)
“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.” (Benjamin Carson – Pediatric Neurosurgeon)
“I have always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.” (Denton Cooley – pioneer of heart transplants)
“The Godfather was a very under-appreciated movie when we were making it. I almost got fired.” (Francis Ford Coppola – filmmaker, producer and screenwriter)
“My parents telling me to stop doing it is probably what caused the company to be created.” (Michael Dell – Founder of Dell)
Selected from Academy of Achievement – one of my favorite inspiration sites.
[Photo taken in Hong Kong during MacLehose 6-7 and the 'Needle Hill' climb]
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5 inspiring quotes by Steve Jobs
Posted by Mush Panjwani on October 7, 2011
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” (Fortune)
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” (Macstories.net)
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” (Stanford University commencement address, June 2005)
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.” (Wall Street Journal 1993, shared by UK Guardian)
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square hole; the ones who see things differently; they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” (Think Different, narrated by Steve Jobs)
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How to choose your allies…
Posted by Mush Panjwani on September 18, 2011
Just finished reading another wonderful book by Paulo Coelho: The Way of the Bow. It’s a short and simple story that covers many of the values which inspire our daily work: innovation, flexibility, adapting to changes, enthusiasm, team work etc. Here are some inspiring pieces from the chapter on ‘Allies’…
“The best allies are those who do not think like everyone else. When you seek companions, trust your intuition and pay no attention to what anyone else may say. People always judge others by taking as a model their own limitations, and other people’s opinions are often full of prejudice.”
“Join with those who experiment, take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticize those who do not think like them.”
“Join with those who are flexible as the wood of your bow. They are people who do not hesitate to change direction when they encounter some insuperable barrier. They have the qualities of water: flowing around rocks, adapting to the course of the river…”
“Join with those who sing, tell stories, take pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious and can prevent others from becoming paralyzed by depression, loneliness and difficulties. Join with those who do their work with enthusiasm.”
[Photo of a river in Qing Yuan, China]
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Inspiring quotes about Change
Posted by Mush Panjwani on June 6, 2011
“If there’s no difference between your tomorrow and today, you are as good as dead.” (Imam Ali AS)
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” (Reinhold Niebuhr)
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” (Maria Robinson)
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Growth mean change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and the willingness to change. At such a moment, there’s no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready.” (Paolo Coelho)
“Life is too short to try and change others.” (yours truly)
[Photo of Danxia Peaks in ShaoGuan, China - taken yesterday]
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Inspiring Quotes: Life and Living
Posted by Mush Panjwani on January 21, 2011
Someone in my family died a couple of days ago. A wonderful and kind woman who had been fighting a disease for a long time. And there are two other people, very close to me, who are struggling for life – a two and a half year old and a 60 year old.
We have no control over when and how we will die. But we can choose how we live – with gratefulness, happiness, peace, contentment, love, laughter, fulfillment, forgiveness, action… or with complaints, anger, worries, greed, hate, jealousy, procrastination…
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrow.” (Pope Paul)
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” (George Bernard Shaw)
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” (Leonardo Da Vinci)
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain)
“Death is not the greatest of loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” (Norman Cousins)
“Have courage to live. Anyone can die.” (Robert Cody)
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” (Charles Darwin)
“A man whose today is the same as yesterday is as good as dead.” (Imam Ali)
“Life is too short to complain.” (Yours truly)
[Photo of a Muslim graveyard in Sarajevo]
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10 Inspiring Quotes on Forgiveness
Posted by Mush Panjwani on September 10, 2010
Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating their Eid (pronounced as eed) Festival today. It’s a day of family, friends, feast, festivity and forgiveness. I hope the following quotes inspire you to forgive others, and yourself, for all the wrongs of the past.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it can never be shown against one. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. (Lewis B. Smedes)
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. (Isaac Friedmann)
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. (E.H. Chapin)
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. (Anonymous)
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. (H. Jackson Brown)
There is no love without forgiveness; and there’s no forgiveness without love. (Byrant McGill)
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart – forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Hannah More)
Which one did you like best? Do you have a favorite quote on forgiveness? Please share through comments.
[Photo of a popular shrine in Iran, taken in July 2009]
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