October 27, 2009

Charles "Tremendous" Jones Quote from Og Mandinos Secrets of Success

I just began listening to Og Mandino for the first time ever. After a mere 30 minutes in to the inspirational audio book Secrets of Success, Og Mandino has already made quite an impact on me. Furthermore, he has displayed an absolute masterful ability to tell a story and deliver a speech performance.

The powerful quote from Mandino's Secrets of Success I just heard is:

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

Charles Jones

So I must ask, does this inspiring quote resonate with you? It certainly does with me. And no doubt about it, this is one I will remember!

October 25, 2009

Psychology Humor from Mad TV

Humor and psychology usually don't go together. But here is a funny clip from MADTV with Bob Newhart about psychology humor. It is quite related to self improvement, and the video clip is entitled Stop It!:

If you have any of your own psychology humor videos or jokes, please do comment here! We'd all love to see them.

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Andrew Carnegie Quotes Random Inspirational and Motivational Quotes

“No man can become rich without himself enriching others.”

-Andrew Carnegie

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

-Andrew Carnegie

“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

-Andrew Carnegie

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

-Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

-Andrew Carnegie

“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.”

-Andrew Carnegie

Who was Andrew Carnegie?

"Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish businessman, entrepreneur, industrialist, and a foremost philanthropist.

Carnegie is one of the most well known captains of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. With the fortune he made from business, he later turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie gave away most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in America, the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees. He is often regarded as the second-richest man in history after John D. Rockefeller. Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860's had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. Andrew Carnegie built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe."

From: "Andrew Carnegie." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

Krish Dhanam Video - Motivational and Inspirational Speaker!

This is a great video I just saw for the first time about a person I just heard about while researching the Get Motivated seminar. You may have heard their commercials on the radio. It's very cheap and they threw out some big names (Ziglar, Giuliani, Terry Bradshaw, Colin Powell) so that got me interested. Unfortunately, the reviews are generally negative and at best the reviewers say there are some good points, but not a good overall experience. If it were in my area I think it would be an easy decision to go if the day is free seeing as how the even only costs around $20-25.

Regardless, check out this inspirational Krish Dhanam video.

Krish Dhanam biography

Krish Dhanam was born in the coastal town of Vizag, in Andhra Pradesh, India. In 1984 he finished his MBA at the Institute of Management Technology and migrated to the United States in 1986. As a proud card carrying member of the sales force of America Krish soon started his corporate climb. Through training, teaching and facilitating seminars all over the world, Krish launched his professional speaking career.

As one of only two executive coaches personally trained by Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam has successfully delivered his message of hope, humor and balance in over forty international venues and throughout the continental United States . His client list is the who's who of global enterprise and he has received accolades from some of the most distinguished organizations including, The United States Army, Christian Dior, Steelcase Industries, Apollo Hospitals, The Environmental Protection Agency, Weyerhauser and the Florida Department of Revenue. Dhanam is the author of The American Dream from an Indian Heart and contributing author to Top Performance written by Zig Ziglar.

If you want more, read some inspiring Krish Dhanam quotes on life and success!
Krish Dhanam Video on Goals, Inspiration, Motivation

October 16, 2009

Random Wayne Dyer Quote from Power of Intention

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne Dyer from his program Power of Intention.

October 10, 2009

How Proust Can Change Your Life Book Excerpt about Reading

The following excerpt is the conclusion to the book, How Proust Can Change Your Life." I found this rather insightful and compelling. It most certainly lends a strong point to the idea of putting to action what you actually read.

“It is one of the great and wonderful characteristics of good books…that for the author they may be called “conclusions” but for the reader “incitements”…That is the value of reading and also its inadequacy. To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.”

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

Very often, we all read things and come across good ideas, but we hesitate to take action -- sometimes indefinitely. Be sure that you heed Alain de Botton's wise words and listen to great words from great books, but let that be the beginning, not the ending.

October 6, 2009

Random Brian Tracy Quote from Maximum Achievement on Praise

"People may work harder for more money, but they will crawl over broken glass to get more praise and recognition."

Brian Tracy from Maximum Achievement

October 2, 2009

Wise Inspirational Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joyce Meyer

Here is an inspirational quote I heard on t.v. from Joyce Meyer:

If you don't do it, you haven't really learned it.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet (1803-1882)

If you're wanting more inspirational Joyce Meyer quotes read the Joyce Meyer Quote Page I put together with various quotes on happiness, motivation and success, life, and love and forgiveness.

October 1, 2009

Inspirational Classic Quotes and Pearls of Wisdom

Some random quotes from famous figures:

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

Plato

"Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking."

Tim McMahon

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Mickey Rooney

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit."

The Bible

A Classic Poem by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!