My favourite quotes from the book Legion: Skin deep by Brandon Sanderson:
Always tell your captives they have more time than they do. It makes them relaxed. Sets them to planning instead of trying to break out immediately. The last thing you want to do is to make them desperate, since desperate people are unpredictable.
Anything that is possible is actually a reality given infinity.
The only quote I liked from the book Storm Front by Jim Butcher:
I made a vampire cry. I felt like a real super hero now. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, breaker of monster’s hearts.
My favourite quotes from the book Scream free parenting by Hal Edward Runkel:
Parenting is not about kids, it’s about parents. The greatest thing you can do for your kids is learn to focus on yourself.
We are responsible for our children – this is the biggest lie. We have responsibility to our children.
To be in charge as a parent means inspiring children to motivate them selves.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
Then importance of giving your children increasing space as they age is far greater than the fear of what they will do with that space.
It is your room, clean it if you will.
Let them close the door. Knock before you come in, and await their answer and if it’s NO, come back later.
Give them money, but then teach them about it.
Let them struggle.
You can’t? Man, that sucks, what have you tried so far? After the response ask: so what are you going to do about it?
This is what I think, what do you think?
Wow, you’re bored. That stinks. I hate it when I’m bored too. What are you going to do about it?
After 10 minutes in the car – are we there yet? Wow it looks like you really don’t want to be in the car right now. You know what, me neither – and for whole next two hours! What are we going to do about it?
The very act of homework hovering makes a problem even worse.
Learning from our mistakes is the highest form of education possible.
I told you so – don’t use this.
Integrity. It’s very important for your children to believe that what you say is what you honestly believe and what you will actually do.
Broken body makes it extremely difficult to provide for and protect your children. Your health is your first responsibility. Your self-respect is important, as well as your marriage – your marriage is more important than your kids. Take care of yourself in order to benefit others.
The only way to change the pattern is focusing on your part in it, and then do something different. Don’t wait for others to change – you change and the rest will follow.
Believe it or not, the most important factor for girls growing up into competent, well-adjusted woman is a strong father would conservative values.
Don’t let your daughter have a TV or computer in her room. Safe TV for family time – when you or your wife can decide what to watch.
Your daughter doesn’t want to see you as equal, she wants you to be her hero. Someone who is wiser and steadier and stronger than she is.
Authority is not a threat to your relationship with your daughter – it is what will get you closer with your daughter and what will make her respect you even more.
Lead by example and don’t back down from your principles!
Women in magazines aren’t the best role models. People who judge everyone on their looks probably have terrible self-esteem issues. It’s not important how thin someone is but what her character is.
Don’t comment frequently on how she looks. Don’t comment on your own needs the diet. Appearance is not a high-priority – what matters is her, and not what she wears. Give her attention naturally. If you talk about something often she will follow.
Be confident. Defend her and be supportive. And don’t back away from hugging her. Don’t allow fashion trends mold your daughter – seven-year-old learns from commercials that being sexy is good – you have to intervene.
Teach her to wait!
Teach self-respect early. At every age tell her her body is special and that she needs to keep it special.
Don’t let your daughter grow up to be a victim of life. Too much of our popular culture teaches us to love victims. So, we create people who are helpless, incapable and terribly needy. But you, as a father, can prevent that. You can teach your daughter to do, not just want. Action engages the will and gives energy and momentum. Action means that your daughter will know that she, not others, will determine her fate.
Constant pursuit of more leads to dissatisfaction. When we realize that we don’t need more, then we can be happy. Contempt comes from who we are and what we have today.
It is a great strength knowing that if you lost every material possesion that you would still have life worth living for by sharing it with your loved ones.
To be a good father is to be a good instructor about God.
My dad has a really strong faith. That’s why he got up every morning to pray and read the Bible. Sometimes he would talk about God, but mostly he would like to just live what he read in the Bible. I was happy because I knew he prayed for me.
There is a void in every man’s heart that only God can fill.
Don’t leave your teenage daughter shopping alone because it only makes it easier for the pop-culture to sell them shit.Search for that something, but the more we search for it the more distant it becomes. Because what you’re searching for sits right there. It’s not your job, or more money, your hobbies or more sex – it’s your family, your children, your spouse and God.
My favourite quotes from the book Law of success by Napoleon Hill:
Make yourself a habit of doing more than you are paid for.
We need not seek opportunity in the distance, that we may find it right where we stand.
There is nothing impossible with time. You can do it if you believe you can.
Sometimes you bye because of the seller’s personality, not just his merchandise.
Every failure is a blessing in disguise’s, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned it would doubt it.
Render more service that for which you are paid for and you will soon be paid for more than you render.
You kind of become a power in your community nor achieve in during success in any word the undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes.
The man who can intelligently use knowledge possessed by another is as much or more a man of education as the person who merely has the knowledge but doesn’t know what to do with it.
If you can to do great things yourself, remembered that you can do small things in the great way.
I winner never quits and the quitter never wins.
Ignorance and fear are twins sisters. They’re generally found together.
The man who is powerful fears nothing, not even God. He loves God but fears him not.
You can do it if you believe you can.
Success is the development of power with which to get what everyone wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.
Keep together and no one will defeat you.
Anyone can start but only few will finish.
When the merchants said no, the young man did not hear it, but kept right on coming. On the last day of month, after having told this persistent young man no for 30 times, the merchant said “Look young man, you wasted the whole month trying to sell me. Now, what I would like to know is why have you wasted your time?” Wasted my time nothing – I have been coming to school and you have been my teacher. Now I know all the arguments that the merchant can you bring up for not buying, and besides that I have been drilling myself in self-confidence. You have been my teacher also – teaching me the value of persistence. I will buy what you sell.
I have to work hard when I was young but I shall see to it that my children have an easy time. Poor foolish creatures. An easy time usually turns out to be greater handicap than the average man or woman can survive.
I believe in myself. I believe in others that work with me. I believe in my employer. I believe in my friends. I believe in my family. I believe that God will lend me everything I need with which to succeed if I do my best to earn it through fateful and honest service.I believe in prayer and I will never close my eyes and sleep without praying for divine guidance to do and that I will be patient with other people and tolerant with those that do not believe as I do. I believe that success is the result of indulgent effort in that it does not depend on lock or sharp practices or doublecrossing friends, fellow men or my employer. I believe that I will get from life exactly that I put into it. Therefore I will be conducting myself toward others as I would want them to act toward me. I will not slender does that I do not like. I will not slide my work no matter what I see others doing. I will render the best service which I am capable of doing, because I have pleasured myself to succeed in life and I know success is the result of conscience and efficient effort. Finally, I will forgive those who offend me, because I realize that I should sometimes offend others and I will need their forgiveness.
If you think you’re beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but do you think you can it is almost certain you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost. Success begins with the fellows mind. It’s all in the state of the mind. If you think you’re outclassed, you are. You’ve got to think high to rise. You’ve got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win the prize. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
For no one who lacks faith in him self is really educated in the proper sense of the term.
Here is the dungeon of the mind in which runs and hides and seeks seclusion. It brings superstition and it is a dagger way to beach soul is assassinated.
They by day in every way I’m getting more successful.
Believe in yourself. But, don’t tell the world what you can do – show it!
The only lasting favor a parent can confer upon a Child is that of helping the child to help itself.
We are victims of a habit. The habit of saving money requires more force of character than most people have developed for the reason that saving mean self denial and sacrifice and amusements and pleasures of scores of different ways. That’s who learns the habit of saving also requires additional needs habits which help toward success: self-control, self-confidence, courage, balance, freedom.
Saving account – 20%
Living, clothes food and shelter – 50%
Education – 10%
Recreation – 10%
Life insurance – 10%Get rid of the procrastination! Do every day one thing that brings you closer to your definite chief aim. The one thing that no one told you you have to do and tell everyone how to get rid of the procrastination.
Man learns best that which he endeavors teach others.
The book will stimulate fault, which is the greatest service any book can render.
The man always takes never gives is not a leader – he’s a parasite.
No one has ever given you an opportunity? Has it ever occurred to you to create opportunity for yourself!?
You will never have a definite purpose in life, you will never have self-confidence, initiative and leadership unless you create these qualities in your imagination.
Most people will not grant favors just to please others. If I ask you to render service that would benefit me, without bringing you some corresponding advantage you will not show much enthusiasm and grant that favor, you may refuse altogether. But if I ask you to render service that will benefit the third person, even though the service must be rendered through me, and if that service is of such nature that it is likely to reflect the credit on you, the chances are that you will rendered this service willingly.
I cannot try to deceive myself, to do so would destroy the power of my pen and render my words as ineffective. It is only when I write with the fire enthusiasm burning in my heart that my writing impresses others favorably and it is only when I speak from the heart that is bursting with belief in my message that I can move my audience to except that message.
One of the greatest powers for good on this world is faith.
For truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of the mustard seed, you will say to this mountain ‘move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.
I wonder where she is and what she’s doing when I’m away. When these questions begin to rise in your mind do not call in the detective, instead go to the psychiatric hospital and have yourself examined because more than likely are suffering from a mild form of insanity. Get your foot on jealousy first before it puts its clutches on your throat.
Today if a boy wants the wagon he cries for it, and he gets it?! Lack of self-control is being developed in the oncoming generations by their parents who have become victims of the spending habit.
By making it easy for you child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came from bitter biting necessity.
Don’t say I can’t afford it, ask how can you afford it.
No matter how well you may be when you start for work in the morning if everyone you meet should say to you how you look and that you should see a doctor, it will not be long before you feel ill.
Write your definite chief aim in place it somewhere where you can see it daily many times.
Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years, finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my faith, I am the captain of my soul.It is not the blows your deal, but the blows you take on the good old earth that show if you stuff is real.
Burn your bridges behind you and observe how well you work when you know you have no retreat.
Do not fear a person who says “I’m not paid to do this, I will not do it”. But watch out for the fellow who remains at his work until he is finished, and performs a little more that it is expected of him, for he may challenge you at the post and pass at the grandstand.
Until you learn to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, until you have cultivate the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, until you have formed the habit of looking forward to good instead of the bad there is in others you will be neater successful nor happy.
Make a habit of doing each day the most distasteful task first.
Tomorrow I will do everything that should be done, when it should be done and as it should be done. I will perform the most difficult tasks first because this will destroy the habit of procrastination and develop the habits of action in its place.
Do not tell them what you can do show them.
Definite chief aim
Self-confidence
Habit of saving
Imagination
Initiative and leadership
Enthusiasm
Self-control
Doing more than paid for
Pleasing personality
Accurate thought
Concentration
Corporation
Failure
Tolerance
Golden rulePower comes from organized effort.
Prayer without faith is nothing but an empty collection of words.
Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is by division, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well to this day then.
…and this too will pass…
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
There is no better way of influencing the parent than that of capturing the child.
Book value lies not in the printed pages, but then the possible action they might arouse the reader.
No man can attain success in its highest form without the earnest prayer.
There can never be success without happiness and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
No active kindness is without its rewards even though it may never be directly paid. I will do my best to assist others where and when department to arises.
They do me wrong who say I come no more when once I knock and failed to find you in. For every day I stand outside your door and bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Weep not for chances past away! Each night I burn the records of the day at sunrise every soul is born again! Then threw in from the bloated archives of the best and find the futures pages white as snow.
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell. Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven. Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell, each night to start to guide thy feet to heavens. Laugh like a boy it’s blenders that have sped, to vanish to join you should be blind and deaf and dumb. My judgments sealed the debt best with that, but never find a moment yet to come. Though deep in mire, wring not your hand and weep and Linda my hand to all who say “I CAN”. No shame – face outcast ever sank so deep. But yet might rise and be again a man.
My favourite quotes from the book The Game by Anders de la Motte:
If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
Fear is a powerful weapon, my brother, very powerful. If you play this well, you can keep people under control, make them to focus on stupid things and divert their attention from the really important things like human rights and personal freedoms. This functions in both ways.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
If you’re aware of your illness, it doesn’t mean your healthy.
My favourite quotes from the book Rich dad, poor dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki:
The love of money is the root of all evil versus the lack of money is the root of all evil.
Sadly, money is not taught in school.
One said “I can’t afford it”, the other “how can I afford it?“. One is a statement, the other question which forces you to think! If you say I can’t afford it – your brain stops, if however you say/ask “how can I afford it” you force your brain to think.
Proper physical exercise increases your chances for health and proper mental exercises increase your chances of wealth.
Taxes punish those who produce!, versus the statement that the rich should give the poor and pay more taxes.
Study hard so you could find a good company to work for versus study hard to find a company you could buy.
The reason why I’m not rich is why I have you kids versus the reason why I must be rich is because I have you kids.
Learn to manage risk.
Money is power.
There is a difference between being poor and being broke – being broke is temporary, being poor is forever.
Study to be rich, understand how money works and learn to have it work for me.
Money comes and goes, but if you have the education on how the money works you’ll gain power over it and you can begin building wealth.
The poor and the middle class work for money, rich people have money work for them.
Hurt is good – it inspires you to make money.
Most people only talk and dream about getting rich, You tried to do something!
Some just let life push them around, others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss or their job, or their husband and wife, they do not know that it’s life who’s pushing. If you do not fight back you will spend your life blaming your job, boss, little pay for your problems. You live your life hoping for that big break that will solve all your money problems. If you have no guts you’ll just give up every time life pushes you – you will live your life safe – you die a boring old man. So, fight and go for it motherfucker.
Rat race – get up, go to work, pay bills – get and increased salary, spend more.
Once a person stop searching for information and self moment ignorance sets in.
It’s not how much money you make it’s how much money you keep.
Buy assets, not liabilities. Asset is something that puts money in your pocket and liability something that takes it out.
Financial literacy, investing, understanding markets, the law.
People who avoid failure, also avoid success.
Schools often the reward people who study more and more about less and less. You should know little about a lot.
Workers work hard enough not to get fired, and owners they just enough so that workers won’t quit. That’s a wrong moto.
Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go.
Give and you shall receive.
I have never really met anyone that likes losing money. And in all my years I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But, I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime. Investing that is.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. For you’ll be criticized anyway.
It is not what you know, it is how fast you can learn something new.
For winners – loosing inspires them. For losers – loosing defeats them.
What I find funny is that so many poor or middle class people insist on flipping restaurant help 15 to 20% even for bad service, but complain paying a broker 3 to 7%.
Too often today we focus on borrowing money to get the things we want instead of focusing on creating money.
Insanity – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Stop and see what is it that you’re doing that is not working and do something new.
Find someone who has done what do you want to do. Take them to lunch.
Take classes, read and attend seminars.
Make offers, someone may accept.
Profits are made in that buying, nothing in selling – prices go up in the neighborhood and people start buying – wrong!
Don’t play it safe – play it smart.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
My favourite quotes from the book Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill:
All earned riches have a beginning and an idea.
We refuse to believe that which we do not understand.
We are the masters of our faith, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts that we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
Desire – the first step towards riches.
He did not say “I will try, he knew he would make it”.
Fix an exact amount you want in your head. Determine how much will you give back. Establish a definite date. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once. Write this all down. Read this statement twice a day. See yourself in possession of the money.
The object is to want money and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
No one ever is defeated until defeat is accepted as reality.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes that he can acquire it.
Our only limitations are those that we set up in our own minds.
Desire backed by faith knows no limit.
If you think poorly about yourself, your subconscious mind will take this and translate into physical equivalent.
Fate is a premise for everything.
Any idea, plan or purpose may be placed into mind by repetition of thought. That’s why you have to read/write your definite chief aim.
You come to believe what you constantly repeat to yourself.
If you think you’re beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t it’s almost certain you won’t. If you think you will lose, you lost. It’s all in the state of mind. You have to be sure of yourself before you ever win a prize. The man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and to organize that knowledge into plans of action.Anything acquired without effort and without cost is generally unappreciated, often discredited.
The person who stops studying merely because he finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity.
There is no fixed price in an excellent idea.
The idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge can be found just around the corner.
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind.
No man is ever wiped, until he quits – in his own mind.
A quitter never wins, and the winner never quits.
The greatest among you shall be servant of all.
The world does not pay a man for that which they know, but for what they do, or induce others to do.
Every company has room for a man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Riches do not come without effort.
With persistence will come success.
1. Definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment.
2. A different plan expressed in continuous action.
3. Mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends and acquaintances.
4. A friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage one to follow through with the plan and purpose.
The sex energy must be transmuted from desire for physical contact into some other desire or action.
Faith and fear make poor bedfellows.
Pray for a thing and believe you will receive it.
My favourite quotes from the book The greatest salesman in the world by Og Mandino:
It is indeed a simple task, provided one is willing to pay the price in time and concentration until each principal becomes a part of one’s personality.
Do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness to be loved and to love and more importantly to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
I consider poverty to be lack of ability, or lack of ambition.
Rewards are great if one succeeds. But the rewards are great only because so few succeed.
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Although I consider myself a good salesman I cannot sell death on departing from my door.
You’re an old man nods wisely and speaks stupidly.
For what is success than the state of mind.
Failure is man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
I could bestow upon you great wealth but this would do you great disservice, far better is if you become the world’s greatest salesman on your own.
The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked doors to failure.
Only a habit can subdue another habit.
As I repeat the words daily it will soon become the part of my active mind, but more importantly it will also slip into my other mind. That mysterious source that never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act ways I do not comprehend.
I will not hear those who weep and complain for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not at the beginning. And it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at 1000th step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it hides unless I turn the corner. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another and yet another. I will persist until I succeed.
There is no room in the marketplace for my family. Nor is there a place for market at my home.
If I persist long enough I will win.
Never has there been a map however carefully executed to detail and scale which carried its owner over even 1 inch ground, never has there been a parchment of law that prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll that produced a penny. Action is the food and drink that will nourish my success. I will act now.
I will pray, but my cries for help will only be cries for guidance. Never will I pray for material things of the world. Only for guidance will I pray.
Oh creator of all things help me, for this day I go out to the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me. I will wonder far from the path which leads to success and happiness, I ask not for gold or even opportunities equal to my ability. Instead guide me that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunity. You have taught the lion and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with the teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and the eagle at the marketplace. Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit, yet indulge me with courage to laugh at my misgivings. Spare me some sufficient days to reach my goals, yet help me to live this day, as that would be my last. Guide me in my words that they may be a fruit, yet silence me from gossip that none be malign. Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying again, yet show me the way to use the law of the averages. Favor me with alertness to favor the opportunity, yet enable me with patients which will concentrate my strength. Bade me in good habits that the bad ones may drown, grant me compassion for weaknesses in others. Let me know that all things shall pass, yet help me to count the blessings of today. Expose me to hate, yet not be a stranger, yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends. But all these things be of thy will. I’m small and lonely grape clutched divine yet that has made me different from all of us. Fairly, there must be a special place for me, guide me, help me, show me the way. Let me become all that you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world. Helpe this humble salesman, guide me God!
My favourite quotes from the book The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien:
You are not easy to carry around, not even after few weeks of your starvation.
This would be a much happier world if more of us would stick to the eating, singing and happiness than to the vast piles of gold.
