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25 Quotes That Will Help You Through Tough Times
I have compiled 30 of my favorite tough times quotes that I find has helped me through tough times over the years. Sometimes we need a few pointers on inner strength, this in turn makes us realize that we aren’t the only ones who have gone through hard times, that no ones an exception and that we can get through it with a little bit of positive hope and a handful of lines for guidance.
Enjoy! And Good Luck with overcoming your obstacles and facing hard times.
Tough Times Quotes
“Pain is your friend; it is your alie. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you’re not dead yet!” – G.I Jane
Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert H Schuller
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. – Unknown
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. –Leroy Satchel Paige
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. – Jewish Proverb
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. – William Hazlitt
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. – Malcolm S Forbes
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – Unknown
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. – Thomas Paine
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. – Ulysses S. Grant
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. –Seneca
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus
Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. – Unknown
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. – Charles M Schwab
The true test of a person character is how they stand during test of adversity – Unknown
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me. – Dr. Seuss
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca
Contribution is defined as something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people or to help make something successful. May these quotes inspire you to make a positive contribution to the world so that you may help advance humanity to a greater level.
Here are 35 quotes to inspire you to live a life of contribution:
1. “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” – Robert F. Kennedy
2. “The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.” – Frank Herbert
3. “Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.” – Jack Kornfield
4. “It’s the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” – Sheryl Sandberg
5. “The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your life improves automatically.” – Kurek Ashley
6. “We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” – Roger Ebert
7. “I feel that my whole life is a contribution.” – Pete Seeger
8. “Every contribution counts. Everyone can make a difference. Just start with yourself.” – Anonymous
9. “Your rewards in life are always in direct proportion to your contribution – your service.” – Earl Nightingale
10. “Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.” – Azran Osman Rani
11. “Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.” – Seth Godin
14. “Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there that needs what you have to give.” – Anonymous
15. “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.” – Nelson Mandela
16. “You look out there and there’s people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.” – Brad Paisley
17. “Let your actions contribute to advancing humanity to a greater level.” – ATGW
18. “I have a contribution to make.” – Lauren Bacall
19. “Your contribution to the world are significant gifts to humanity.” – Amy Larson
20. The key to life is not accumulation, it is contribution.” – Stephen Covey
21. “Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be?” – Anonymous
22. “Life is about growth and contribution, not perfection.” – Anonymous
23. “Treat your new job as a mission. Avoid procrastination. Increase contribution. Exceed expectations.” – Anonymous
24. “Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to determine the outcome.” – Yehuda Berg
25. “When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It’s a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.” – Andrew Grantelli
26. “Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield
27. “Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.” – Peter Drucker
29. “Most people set goals to get. There is a better way. Instead, try setting your goals, based on personal growth and contribution to others.” – Eric Worre
30. “Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.” – Robin Sharma
31. “The single biggest contribution you can make is to step into your greatness. Let your own unique magnificence blossom.” – Jane Lee Logan
32. “What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to mankind.” – Morris Dees
33. “Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.” – Greg McKeown
34. “It is not position but contribution that makes a leader.” – Apoorve Dubey
35. “It is not what we get but who we become, and what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.” – Tony Robbins
Which contribution quote was your favorite and why? Comment below!
The Office was a huge TV success launching the careers of multiple A-list actors and actresses. Although many of the shows characters such as Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly were people’s favorites, Michael Scott was the one who would fill our hearts with inspiration while being funny. Often times, Michael’s baffling and complicated comments would make his employees smile and realize how much he cared for all of them.
Below are 18 of the funniest yet inspirational quotes from The Office:
1. “And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.”- Michael Scott
2. “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’” – Wayne Gretsky’ – Michael Scott
3. “I am Beyoncé, always.” – Michael Scott
4. “Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick.” – Kevin Malone
5. “You need to play to win. But you also need to win to play.” – Michael Scott
6. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going.” – Michael Scott
7. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going.” – Michael Scott
8. “I’m totally fine. Everything is going to be totally fine.” – Pam Beesly
9. “Worth it.” – Jim Halpert
10. “Chillax.” – Michael Scott
11. “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.” – Andy Bernard
12. “There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?” – Pam Beesly
13. “I, understand — nothing.” – Michael Scott
14. “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.” – Michael Scott
15. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” – Michael Scott
16. “Sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of boss that’s always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.” – Michael Scott
17. “People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.” – Michael Scott
18. “The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” – Michael Scott
Which one of the above quotes from The Office resonates with you most and why?
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who is best known for developing psychoanalysis. His theories involve the ego, child sexuality, and libido amongst other things making him one of the most influential academics of the 20th century. Nonetheless, much of his work is debated by academics to this day making Freud a topic of great interest.
Below are 21 Sigmund Freud quotes to help you think about life and what you want from it:
1. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
2. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” – Sigmund Freud
3. “In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.” – Sigmund Freud
4. “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” – Sigmund Freud
5. “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud
6. “If youth knew; if age could.” – Sigmund Freud
7. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” – Sigmund Freud
8. “The ego is not master in its own house.” – Sigmund Freud
9. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
10. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
11. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Sigmund Freud
12. “The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.” – Sigmund Freud
13. “When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.” – Sigmund Freud
14. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.” – Sigmund Freud
15. “Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” – Sigmund Freud
17. “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.” – Sigmund Freud
19. “The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.” – Sigmund Freud
20. “In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” – Sigmund Freud
21. “If you don’t like a person it’s because they remind you of something you don’t like about yourself.” – Sigmund Freud
Which one of these Sigmund Freud quotes resonates most with you and why?
Most people would say they want to live a life full of love and prosperity when it comes to their finances, family, friends, fitness, and work. However, there are times where life gets the best of us, and we become uninspired and unmotivated.
We’ve all been unmotivated at one point or another. For example, I typically hear people say “I’ll start my diet tomorrow,” or “I’ll just finish that later.” However, why not just start now and motivate yourself to unlock your inner greatness.
Below are 32 motivational quotes to help you make the most of your life:
1. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
2. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
3. “Success… seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
4. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
5. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Unknown
6. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving
7. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
8. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
9. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
10. “Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” – Alfred A. Montapert
11. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
12. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
13. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
14. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
15. “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Will Smith
16. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” – Charles De Gaulle
17. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
18. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
19. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
20. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder
21. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
22. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
23. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton
24. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
25. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
26. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
27. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
28. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs
29. “Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.’ – Patti Smith
30. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg
31. “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” – Muhammad Ali
32. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
Which one of these quotes motivates you the most to go out and make something amazing out of your life?
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10 Things The Corporate World *Didn’t* Teach Me
I’ve just left the corporate world. It’s been seven years and I don’t regret a single second of it.
You’d think I would have learned everything there is to know about business in the corporate world. I didn’t.
There were a lot of gaps which I luckily was able to fill in during my entrepreneur days.
Here’s what the corporate world didn’t teach me:
1. How to think for myself
In the corporate world, you’re often told what to do.
If you don’t have the answer then some smart person, in some department will probably have the answer for you. The answer may not be the latest and greatest strategy, but it will be based on some prior knowledge.
As an entrepreneur, none of this was available to me. I’d roll up to the old Milkbar that was our office, and I’d start stacking boxes into the little van we had. More boxes of soft drink and chips meant more gold coins in our vending machines.
Gold coins could be banked at our local branch at the end of the day and that’s how petrol, electricity, uniforms and the occasional Macca’s dinner was paid for. No one told me how to do that.
I either collected the gold coins, or I didn’t. No gold coins meant game over. As an entrepreneur, that meant failure and during your 20’s that’s often the last thing you want.
Thinking for myself wasn’t taught to me it was a survival tactic. I took this tactic with me to the corporate world and people were surprised.
As my former colleague said to me the other day “You don’t overthink Tim youjust get shit done while everybody else is scratching their head.”
2. Time management
The corporate world is full of big companies with lots of resources.
With an abundance of anything you always have wastage. The corporate world definitely didn’t tell me how to manage time.
What could have been a five-minute phone conversation often ended up in huge email chains. It was a bit of a game.
“Every email involved another person or persons being cc’d. The ultimate trick was to blind cc people within your company. Like magic, bombs start going off and no one can work out who did what. That’s the power of BCC”
None of this was good for time management though. Lot’s of time was spent trying to communicate with one another. Meetings are a thing in the corporate world.
Every problem that exists must have a meeting. Even if it’s about whether we call the shared folder “Sales” or “Customer Files” a meeting had to be held.
Meetings in the corporate world not only suck up time but are also a fashion parade where all the biggest egos can strut their stuff.
“I’m more important and have a better job title.”
“No, I’m more important!”
This dialogue goes on for days and sometimes months. Understanding the politics is often more critical than understanding the business. Still, none of this is good for time.
The time wasted is used by the tech startup opposition to improve a bug, rethink the customer experience or out-market corporates using social media.
3. A passion for what you love
Passion in the corporate world can often be lacking. Working at a corporate for many is a way to pay the bills rather than do their life’s work.
“Passion can often be traded for money, bonuses and even more impressive job titles — all of which leave you feeling more empty”
It’s not all full of zero passion, though. There are a few people that are insanely passionate and those folk shine through.
The corporate world taught me to put my passion on hold rather than use it to WOW customers with the very thing that sets me apart.
4. What people are really buying
Working at a corporate taught me that it’s all about marketing.
I knew, though, from the startup world that this very idea was wrong.
People are buying you. They’re buying the people they deal with and what those people stand for.
No client in my corporate career ever gave a damn about the commoditized products I was selling. All of my clients gave a damn about my obsession to inspire the world through personal development and entrepreneurship. They were intrigued by my five years as an entrepreneur and what I learned.
This led to customers becoming friends as opposed to people that bought widgets from me and had the money they laid tracked in a CRM as ‘revenue.’
“Not once in my corporate career did I have something to sell that couldn’t be bought from somewhere else, at a lower price or with better product features. The product feature my clients bought was me”
5. The power of an audience
People are often too afraid to be vulnerable in the corporate world.
I never learned the power of an audience during my career working in corporates. All of that was learned between 6 pm and 8 pm every night when I was at home from work posting on LinkedIn.
Social media is not so prominent in the corporate world because it requires you to remove the corporate mask and show your flaws. Fakeness on social channels like LinkedIn just doesn’t work. People don’t engage.
Many people told me that the audience I was building on social media was career suicide. I ignored every one of them and I’m so glad I did.
These same people that warned me to stay off social media are the same ones asking me now to help them with their own social accounts.
With an audience, you can test ideas.
With an audience, you can inspire.
With an audience, you can recruit people to your team.
With an audience, you derive meaning for your life.
6. Doing the important vs. the mediocre
In corporate business, there’s a lot of noise.
Everything looks important. Everything looks like it could become a lawsuit (especially for a corporate). Everything looks like it could become a PR scandal. Everything looks risky to that next job promotion and to the business.
That’s where mediocrity thrives. With so much noise it’s easy to spend your days filing bits of paper or moving widgets from Point A to Point B without having any clue of why you’re doing it or how it contributes to humankind.
I didn’t learn the discipline of doing the important work in corporate life.
Doing the important came out of the entrepreneurial trait of problem-solving through a vision. It came from wanting to see things better than they are.
Doing the important was fuelled by a desire to achieve a goal that everybody said wasn’t possible. It’s a rebellious philosophy that pushes mediocrity the hell out of the way.
7. The way to have a meeting (ideally no meeting)
Running a meeting in corporate life follows a formula.
This formula will put almost all attendees to sleep. It’s why when you walk into a corporate board meeting, most of the execs are looking at their phone rather than paying attention to who’s speaking.
The formula goes like this:
- Introduce everybody in the meeting (most don’t need to be there)
- Pretend there’s an agenda (it will get hijacked…guaranteed)
- Pretend to solve the problem by agreeing to invite more people to a future meeting
- Pass ownership around of the problem whilst ignoring the potential solutions
- Assigning action items which everybody ignores (thus triggering another meeting)
“The best way to have a meeting is not to have a meeting”
Meetings are needed in the corporate world because of a lack of trust and having too many cooks in the kitchen.
Have only the people that can solve the problem in the meeting, make it short and trust in the outcome and vision you’re trying to achieve.
That very philosophy makes meetings for the most part irrelevant.
8. How to make better PowerPoint presentations
You’d think with all the PowerPoints you have to do in the corporate world to educate internal stakeholders, you’d be a freaking expert at doing them.
Quite the opposite is true.
Because of the number of PowerPoint decks you have to do in the corporate world, you get worse at them.
The decks get longer, filled with more words, more acronyms and more promises to take more action.
It’s like for every year in the corporate world you add another acronym to the sentence you’re currently writing.
The belief in the corporate world is that all problems must first begin their life in a PowerPoint.
No problem can be solved without a PowerPoint. I once tried to do a presentation with only one slide. Once I explained the one slide I had prepared with a simple diagram that a four-year-old watching Peppa Pig could understand, I then blacked out the screen.
I wanted the attention on what I was saying instead of some Times New Roman, white slide, with Size 12 Font that nobody could read.
Death by PowerPoint is a real cause of death in the corporate world. It kills dreams, ideas, free speech and the will to live.
9. The way to treat people
The corporate world taught me nothing about how to treat people.
Treating people well came from my eBay days where I learned that if you give someone on eBay the thing they want, and do what you say, you’ll get what you want.
This philosophy didn’t translate into corporate life. I was told to treat people well based on what they could do for me. If they couldn’t do anything for me then what’s the point of knowing them? Right?
Wrong.
The people I treated well who seemed to have no benefit to me ended up becoming the Managers, General Managers and Inspiring Leaders five years down the road.
By not asking for stuff all the time, by treating these future leaders with respect and by being as close to a good human being as I could be, I got all the promotions and all the hard to reach opportunities.
My career in the corporate world looked like it was entirely built by luck. It wasn’t. My corporate career was built on respect, honesty and treating people well because it makes sense in the long run.
10. The true meaning of startup buzzwords
Lean startup. Agile. Disruptive. Act like a startup. Minimum viable product.
We hear these words every day in the startup and tech world. Every corporate is trying to adopt them as their own. I didn’t see any of these buzzwords in my corporate career ever be used successfully.
Lean startup meant “Throw seven figures at it and see if it swims. If not, kill it fast!”
Agile meant plan the next five years of a new product, try to deal with every possible situation in the beginning and invite some management consultants.
Act like a startup meant adopt the word but still be a corporate because a sizeable business always knows best.
Minimum viable product meant fix every customer pain point in existence and build the mother of all solutions that’s going to take years to build and leave all competitors for dead. Let’s not fix one thing when we can fix everything thus fixing nothing in the process.
So what can you learn from the corporate world?
It’s not all bad. Park my humor for just one second. You can learn plenty in the corporate world and it’s not all bad.
The corporate world can teach you:
1. Leadership fundamentals
2. Corporate decision-making
3. Community values
4. The rate of technology disruption
The corporate world in some ways shows you what the past looks like so you can build the future. It shows you that size does not necessarily mean better results or more improved solutions.
What I’ve outlined above comes from dealing with hundreds of corporates over the last seven years and the commonalities around how they think.
The grass is not greener.
The corporate world sure has its problems. So does the startup world. So does medium sized business as well.
All business just has a different set of problems to solve.
The way to deal with this conundrum is to become an expert problem solver who enjoys the challenge. It’s not always easy to do.
The business world can get you down and suck the life out of you.
That’s why you need to take a break and get some perspective. Try small, medium and big business for yourself and make your own assessment.
The grass may be longer, shorter or in need of a mow but it’s definitely not greener.
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Great Read! Pain is my friend….. was a life lesson I kept repeating until I finally got it. All 25 were awesome!
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I just so love that the first quote is from G.I. Jane. That film had a massive impact on my life when I look back on things… never giving up… keeping tough against all the odds… so thanks for the reminder and the big smile. I’m never ringing that bell! (it’ll make sense if you saw the film).
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Contribution is defined as something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people or to help make something successful. May these quotes inspire you to make a positive contribution to the world so that you may help advance humanity to a greater level.
Here are 35 quotes to inspire you to live a life of contribution:
1. “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” – Robert F. Kennedy
2. “The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.” – Frank Herbert
3. “Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.” – Jack Kornfield
4. “It’s the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” – Sheryl Sandberg
5. “The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your life improves automatically.” – Kurek Ashley
6. “We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” – Roger Ebert
7. “I feel that my whole life is a contribution.” – Pete Seeger
8. “Every contribution counts. Everyone can make a difference. Just start with yourself.” – Anonymous
9. “Your rewards in life are always in direct proportion to your contribution – your service.” – Earl Nightingale
10. “Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.” – Azran Osman Rani
11. “Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.” – Seth Godin
14. “Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there that needs what you have to give.” – Anonymous
15. “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.” – Nelson Mandela
16. “You look out there and there’s people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.” – Brad Paisley
17. “Let your actions contribute to advancing humanity to a greater level.” – ATGW
18. “I have a contribution to make.” – Lauren Bacall
19. “Your contribution to the world are significant gifts to humanity.” – Amy Larson
20. The key to life is not accumulation, it is contribution.” – Stephen Covey
21. “Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be?” – Anonymous
22. “Life is about growth and contribution, not perfection.” – Anonymous
23. “Treat your new job as a mission. Avoid procrastination. Increase contribution. Exceed expectations.” – Anonymous
24. “Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to determine the outcome.” – Yehuda Berg
25. “When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It’s a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.” – Andrew Grantelli
26. “Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield
27. “Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.” – Peter Drucker
29. “Most people set goals to get. There is a better way. Instead, try setting your goals, based on personal growth and contribution to others.” – Eric Worre
30. “Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.” – Robin Sharma
31. “The single biggest contribution you can make is to step into your greatness. Let your own unique magnificence blossom.” – Jane Lee Logan
32. “What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to mankind.” – Morris Dees
33. “Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.” – Greg McKeown
34. “It is not position but contribution that makes a leader.” – Apoorve Dubey
35. “It is not what we get but who we become, and what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.” – Tony Robbins
Which contribution quote was your favorite and why? Comment below!
The Office was a huge TV success launching the careers of multiple A-list actors and actresses. Although many of the shows characters such as Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly were people’s favorites, Michael Scott was the one who would fill our hearts with inspiration while being funny. Often times, Michael’s baffling and complicated comments would make his employees smile and realize how much he cared for all of them.
Below are 18 of the funniest yet inspirational quotes from The Office:
1. “And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.”- Michael Scott
2. “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’” – Wayne Gretsky’ – Michael Scott
3. “I am Beyoncé, always.” – Michael Scott
4. “Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick.” – Kevin Malone
5. “You need to play to win. But you also need to win to play.” – Michael Scott
6. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going.” – Michael Scott
7. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going.” – Michael Scott
8. “I’m totally fine. Everything is going to be totally fine.” – Pam Beesly
9. “Worth it.” – Jim Halpert
10. “Chillax.” – Michael Scott
11. “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.” – Andy Bernard
12. “There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?” – Pam Beesly
13. “I, understand — nothing.” – Michael Scott
14. “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.” – Michael Scott
15. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” – Michael Scott
16. “Sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of boss that’s always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.” – Michael Scott
17. “People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.” – Michael Scott
18. “The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” – Michael Scott
Which one of the above quotes from The Office resonates with you most and why?
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who is best known for developing psychoanalysis. His theories involve the ego, child sexuality, and libido amongst other things making him one of the most influential academics of the 20th century. Nonetheless, much of his work is debated by academics to this day making Freud a topic of great interest.
Below are 21 Sigmund Freud quotes to help you think about life and what you want from it:
1. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
2. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” – Sigmund Freud
3. “In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.” – Sigmund Freud
4. “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” – Sigmund Freud
5. “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud
6. “If youth knew; if age could.” – Sigmund Freud
7. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” – Sigmund Freud
8. “The ego is not master in its own house.” – Sigmund Freud
9. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
10. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
11. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Sigmund Freud
12. “The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.” – Sigmund Freud
13. “When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.” – Sigmund Freud
14. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.” – Sigmund Freud
15. “Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” – Sigmund Freud
17. “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.” – Sigmund Freud
19. “The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.” – Sigmund Freud
20. “In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” – Sigmund Freud
21. “If you don’t like a person it’s because they remind you of something you don’t like about yourself.” – Sigmund Freud
Which one of these Sigmund Freud quotes resonates most with you and why?
Most people would say they want to live a life full of love and prosperity when it comes to their finances, family, friends, fitness, and work. However, there are times where life gets the best of us, and we become uninspired and unmotivated.
We’ve all been unmotivated at one point or another. For example, I typically hear people say “I’ll start my diet tomorrow,” or “I’ll just finish that later.” However, why not just start now and motivate yourself to unlock your inner greatness.
Below are 32 motivational quotes to help you make the most of your life:
1. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
2. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
3. “Success… seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
4. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
5. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Unknown
6. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving
7. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
8. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
9. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
10. “Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” – Alfred A. Montapert
11. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
12. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
13. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
14. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
15. “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Will Smith
16. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” – Charles De Gaulle
17. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
18. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
19. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
20. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder
21. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
22. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
23. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton
24. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
25. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
26. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
27. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
28. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs
29. “Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.’ – Patti Smith
30. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg
31. “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” – Muhammad Ali
32. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
Which one of these quotes motivates you the most to go out and make something amazing out of your life?
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Zee Williams
May 25, 2016 at 6:14 am
Great Read! Pain is my friend….. was a life lesson I kept repeating until I finally got it. All 25 were awesome!
Deepak Jain
May 21, 2016 at 5:08 am
Everyone can by pass tough time with these action quotes.
EXCELLENT.
Kathy Le
May 11, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Man!
I just love these quotes!
Anne Efi
Mar 31, 2016 at 7:14 am
Amazing…..it helps a lot.
juliet
Nov 1, 2015 at 12:12 am
I’m out of words except –thank you! Everything you posted/wrote helped and inspired me.
Mathews Chipofya
May 31, 2015 at 2:58 pm
I have appreciated to read these wonderful quotes.
Somtochukwu okafor
May 16, 2015 at 7:48 pm
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so inspiring, i love everything concerning addicted to success
Indrajeet
May 5, 2015 at 4:56 pm
Its really awsme…!!!
Cat Knott
Jul 22, 2014 at 3:26 pm
I just so love that the first quote is from G.I. Jane. That film had a massive impact on my life when I look back on things… never giving up… keeping tough against all the odds… so thanks for the reminder and the big smile. I’m never ringing that bell! (it’ll make sense if you saw the film).
isaac
Aug 15, 2014 at 3:24 pm
yea its so amaizing and inspiring