Best self-help quotes

Who Moved My Cheese? quotes

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Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

Self-Reliance quotes

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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The Magic of Thinking Big quotes

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The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

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

Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present

The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit