Quotes By Catogory
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“Challenge everything, assume nothing.”
—Sergio Zyman
“The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”
—Marianne Williamson
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.”
―China Miéville, King Rat
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
―Barack Obama
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
―Isaac Asimov
“Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self-imposed limits.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never-ending improvement.”
—Tony Robbins
“Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.”
—Robin S. Sharma
“The hard way is the best way because there will be no peace without ‘war’”.
―glonins.com
“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.”
―Steve Maraboli,
“Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.”
—Marianne Williamson
“I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”
—Eric Thomas
“The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”
— Brian Tracy
“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them”.
―John C. Maxwell
“It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realise a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all”.
―Chrissie Wellington
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr
“It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.”
—Joel Osteen
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”
—Carol S. Dweck
“One of the downsides of challenges is that we waste our time regretting the mistakes of the previous year, feeling guilty of this year’s decisions and stressing ourselves about the coming year”.
―glonins.com
“Life’s easy when you live it the hard way… and hard if you try to live it the easy way”.
―Dave Kekich
“Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are”.
―Maxwell Maltz
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one a peace of mind. In reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun”.
― Jon Krakauer
“None of us is as smart as all of us”.
―Japanese proverb
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships”.
―Michael Jordan
“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
―Amy Poehler
“Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.”
―Mike Rutherford
“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”
―Golda Meir
“The company owner doesn’t need to win. The best idea does.”
― John C. Maxwell
“The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a sure-fire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”
― Brett Harris
“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”
―Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
“Our method was to develop integrated products, and that meant our process had to be integrated and collaborative”
―Steve Jobs
“If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
―Ryunosuke Satoro
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
―Henry Ford
“Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.”
―Steven Spielberg
“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”
―Al Gore
“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”
—Farrah Gray
“Comfort zone makes one belong to the group of those who watch things happen; negative mind-set categorises one in the group of those who wonder what happens while Positive attitude places one at par with those who make things happen”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“No one likes to move beyond their comfort zone, but as the saying goes, that’s where the magic happens. It’s where we grow, learn, and develop in a way that expands our horizons beyond what we thought was possible.”
―Andy Molinsky
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”
―Robin S. Sharma
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you’re familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about.”
―T. Arigo
“We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
―Ray Bennett
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
―Jillian Michaels
“The only thing that is stopping you from where you are to where you want to go is your comfort zone.”
―Dhaval Gaudier
“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.”
―Dan Stevens
“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone”.
―Karen Salmansohn
“I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal, is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.”
―Mark Burnett
“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of your comfort zone is your biggest challenge.”
―Manoj Arora
“A ship is always safe at the shore-but that is not what it is built for.”
―Albert Einstein
“Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.”
―Kyra Davis
“I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.”
— Joel Osteen
“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness”.
―Les Brown
“Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.”
―Ray Lewis
“Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world.”
―Manoj Arora
“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.”
―Billy Cox
“Resistance to change is very much governed by your comfort zone. Just because something is comfortable does not for a moment mean it’s what you want, or even good for you for that matter.”
―Robin H-C
“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”
―Adam Braun
“Face the fear, even if it’s only a tiptoe outside of your comfort zone instead of a leap. Progress is progress.”
―Annette White
“Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !! Make an attempt.”
―Manoj Arora
“Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort”.
―Paul J. Meyer
“If you can’t give meaning to your job, you’ll always find it exhausting and if you can’t transform your job into work, you’ll continue to live in the past”.
―B.S.O Kpechi
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers”.
―Les Brown
“Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going”.
―Jim Rohn
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek”.
―Mario Andretti
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort”.
―Paul J. Meyer
“Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you”.
―Bill Cosby
“Commitment is an act, not a word”.
―Jean-Paul Sartre
“Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would”.
―Mark Manson
“Most people fail not because of a lack of desire but because of a lack of commitment”.
―Vince Lombardi
“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dream into reality”.
―James Womack
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through”.
―Zig Ziglar
“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy”.
―Bill Blackman
“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations”.
―Bob Beauprez
“Things never happen by accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream”.
―Oscar de la Renta
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment”.
―Anthony Robbins
“You don’t know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them”.
―Carol S. Dweck
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour”.
―Vince Lombardi
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans”.
―Peter F. Drucker
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
—William S. Burroughs
“If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.”
—Henry Ford
“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery”.
―Steve Maraboli
“I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up”.
―Robyn Davidson
“True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness”.
―Adyashanti
“In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind”.
―Frank M. Wanderer
“You discover that a “bored person” is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not “yours,” not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what’s not possible”.
―Wayne Dyer
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them”.
―Aldous Huxley
“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life”.
―Cheri Huber
“We must unlearn what we have learned because a conditioned mind cannot comprehend the infinite”.
―Vivek Verma
“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalised sense of self that is conditioned by the past”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things”.
―Thich Nhat Hanh
“What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones”.
―Max Lerner
“A quiet mind is one that is willing to speak the truth that is felt internally. It is a mind that has not yet been conditioned to accept a reality that is being imposed upon it by well-meaning adults and cultural and religious teachings”.
―Wayne Dyer
“It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?”
―Eckhart Tolle
“We are like bears pacing in a cage, even if the cage is removed, we keep pacing in the same timid limits. We are afraid to get out”.
―Anthony de Mello
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery than that of the chains of mental slavery”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“Imprisonment of the mind is the worst imprisonment of all. It is without walls, without bars, without chains, without keys. It is the most binding, the most self-imposing and self-inflicting. It is blind, it is enslaving, and it has the most willing victim”.
―M. L. Gutierrez
“Man is born free but everywhere in chains”.
―Jean-Jacques Rousseau (political philosopher)
“The subjective mind vis a vis knowledge has never made relatively positive progress in the journey towards the liberation of the human mind”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“A victim of the rules you live by.”
―Jenny Holzer
“It’s the closed mind that seals off creative solutions, keeps us at the point we’re in life, where we’ve been, and will continue to be. If we continue to entertain the closed mind, we’ll find ourselves eliminating any possibility for new opportunities’”.
― B.S.O kpechi
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
―William Faulkner
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success”.
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”.
―Mark Twain
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“It’s the positive attitudes you hold onto in your life that will direct your actions against negative situations. Therefore, do not dwell on a negative mindset so that you’ll achieve your purpose in life.”
―B.S.O kpechi
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”.
―Nelson Mandela
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
―Lao Tzu
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened”.
―Billy Graham
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”.
―T. S. Eliot
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
—Anaïs Nin
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
―E.E. Cummings
“The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.”
—Thucydides
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
―Maya Angelou
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”
—Jim Hightower
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
―Erica Jong
“You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know.”
—Brittany Candau
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
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