I'd like to tell you a quick story about how a quote literally helped me change my life.
About 14 years ago I started a blog, this blog, and just wrote about the lessons I had learned in my life in the hope that it would help others. Later on when I truly wanted to leave the rat race and become a full time entrepreneur creating online products, all I could think about was 'How do I get more money, how can I make more so I can leave my job, what can I do to bring in more income?' These are the questions I asked all the time for around 2 years. Don't get me wrong, I was writing great content for the blog and creating products that would help people in their own life but it just wasn't working for me.
Then I came across this quote:
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
That's when it hit me. Within the space of a few minutes my whole view of my business changed and I realised I shouldn't be asking the question: 'How much money can I make?' I should be asking the question 'How many more people can I help?
That's when I started asking our community what they wanted and what they need in their life to make their life better.
My business changed very quickly and I was able to give up my full time job in September 2012 and I have never looked back since.
Over the years I have collected thousands of deep quotes. Quotes that have changed my thinking, quotes that have made me stop and think and quotes that have literally changed my whole life. That is the power that a few words can have.
Here is a collection of deep quotes that I think could really make you stop and think about your own life.
49 Deep Quotes
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
T. Harv Eker
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Never too suffer would never to have been blessed."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Honesty has a power that very few people can handle."
Steven Aitchison
"Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to”."
Lao Tzu
"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots."
Rumi
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde
"To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others."
Criss Jami
“If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.”
Steve Maraboli
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
Voltaire
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
Michelle Williams
“Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
“We do not create life, we create death.”
Marie Symeou
“I've hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it's the only way to deal with things.”
Alice Feene
“You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.”
Robert M. Drake
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Joshua Marine
“Those who really know and care about you can hear you even when you haven’t spoken a word”
Steven Aitchison
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
“Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.”
Robert Greene
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
Stephanie Perkins
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anaïs Nin
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
Henrik Ibsen
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Buddha
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”
Albert Camus
“The people who really make you angry, control you!”
Steven Aitchison
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michel Angelo
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”
Tony Robbins
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Bill Gates
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim
“I freed 1000 slaves. I could have freed 1000 more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."
Mary Anne Radmacher
"Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life."
Sophia Loren
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is the eternity."
Henry Van Dyke
"Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson
"To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss."
Joseph Campbell
“Your self worth is not found in the opinions of others”
Steven Aitchison
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Neale Donald Walsch
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
Plato
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Publilius Syrus
“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.”
Joe Paterno
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