THOUGHT BOOK-1

Compiled by Gajanan Meshram

THOUGHT ON MOTIVATION

(1) ‘At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you will have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own’ .

(2) ‘Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation’ .

(3) ‘Wanting something is not enough.You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way’ .

THOUGHT ON CHALLENGE

(1) ‘Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they are supposed to help you discover who you are’ .

(2) ‘Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory’ .

(3) ‘Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging’ .

(4) ‘Don’t shirk away from challenges….keep reaching for that star, that sky’ .

(5) ‘Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty’ .

(6) ‘A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it’ .

(7) ‘As you move forward in the world there will be obstacles but every challenge is a chance for success’ .

(8) ‘Need to believe in oneself. Don’t be afraid to take chance’ .

(9) ‘Success is to be measured not by the station one achieves in life, but by the difficulties and obstacles he had to overcome in achieving that position’ . ----B.T.Washington

(10) ‘Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned.

Be industrious and frugal,and you will be rich.

Be sober and temperate,and you will be healthy.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy’ . --- Benjamin Franklin

(11) ‘Benjamin Franklin, who entered life as a very poor boy and concluded as an eminent man, said that--- Success in life depended on two things-- Industry and Frugality’ .

(12) ‘As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information’ . ---- Benjamin Disraeli

(13) ‘If you want to plan for a year, plant corn;

If you want to plan for 30 years, plant trees;

If you want to plan for 100 years, plant men’ . ---- Chinese Proverb

(14) ‘Success lies in confidence and confidence in knowledge, knowledge can be had only by being studious’ .

(15) ‘The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can success’ . ---- Nelson Boswell

(16) ‘That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well’ .

--- Abraham Lincoln

(17) ‘Take pride in how far you come, Have faith in how far you can go’ .

(18) ‘To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe’ . ---Anatole France

(19) ‘Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all’ . --- Dale Carnegie

(20) ‘Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, It lies in the joy of achievement,in the thrill of creative efforts’ .

---F.D. Roosevelt

(21) ‘A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them’ .

---Sir Walter Scott

(22) ‘In all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure’ . --- Confucius

(23) ‘It is man that can make the way great, not the way that can make man great’ . --- Confucius

(24) ‘Don’t be afraid to ask questions. To be a complete person and grow to your full potential , you must have courage to ask questions .Questions to yourself and questions to others’ . ---L. N. Godbole

(25) ‘We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough’ .

--- Helen Keller