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30 Positivity & Optimism Quotes to Create the Spark You Need
It is not what you are doing, but the spirit with which you are doing it that creates the difference. Great achievements are never possible without positivity and optimism. It is easy to complain and be negative, but you never reach anywhere in life doing it. It only degrades your potential.
The most successful people are filled with positivity and optimism. They never let failures, frustrations, struggle and hard work to affect their positive attitude. They train themselves to look at positive in every situation and make the best out of everything they do.
If you see negativity in every situation, it will hurt you the most. Studies show that immune system of people who are negative is quite weak, on the contrary positivity and optimism can boost your immune system.
With positivity and optimism, you can attract great luck, opportunities and success for sure.
1. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier”
Colin Powell
2. “One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you’ll never know.”
Mac Anderson
3. “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”
Lou Holtz
4. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
Joyce Meyer
5. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true—it did for me.”
David Bailey
6. “People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
John C. Maxwell
7. “The only place where your dreams become impossible is in your own thinking.”
Robert H Shuller
8. “The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”
William Walker Atkinson
9. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Tony Robbins
10. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
11. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
12. “As I look forward, I’m very optimistic about the things I see ahead.”
Bill Gates
13. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey
14. “It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.”
Orison Swett Marden
15. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore
16. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Oprah Winfrey
17. “Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.”
Michael Landon
18. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas A. Edison
19. “Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.’’
Joel Osteen
20. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.”
Philippos
21. “If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
Mary Engelbreit
22. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.”
Bruce Lee
23. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.”
Gurbaksh Chahal
25. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
26. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”
Harv Eker
27. “Your attitude towards anything in life is completely under your control.”
Micah Lacerte
28. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
29. “Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn’t something to shrug off.”
Yogi Berra
30. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
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7 Lessons from the Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam
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The Big Takeway from MP Elections for Politicians
While the election results generated tremendous interest and excitement. The common perception is that it does not matter which party wins the elections, the public always loses them.
The wait is now over. The results are finally out. The public in MP is happy, not for electing Congress, but for rejecting the BJP. The BJP governed the state since 2003 and even till last year no one would have believed that it will be voted out of power in 2018.
The MP elections are over and thank God for that. The counting seemed to go on for eternity; it wasn’t for the faint of heart. The nail biting finish to exciting and closely contested election comes to an end. Congress would form the government in the state.
The MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conceded defeat and resigned from his post earlier today. Despite anti incumbency and ruling the state for 15 consecutive years, Shivraj Chouhan almost managed an improbable fourth term. He remains one of the most popular leaders in the state ever and remained graceful in his defeat congratulating Kamal Nath for victory.
The Congress state president Kamal Nath met the governor of the state Anandiben Patel to stake a claim for forming the government. Ever since Kamal Nath took over the reigns of the state congress, he galvanised them into a united force and eventually led Congress to victory.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, Digvijay Singh and Vivek Tankha were the other Congress leaders who accompanied Kamal Nath to meet the governor. The Congress party won 114 seats, received support from BSP, with 2, 1 from SP & 4 seats from independent candidates. The total tally of Congress and its allies is 121 seats.
Sources from the Congress party confirmed that Kamal Nath is the front runner for the Chief Minister’s position in MP.
Jyotiraditya Scindia who is in the reckoning for the CM position said that he will accept the party’s decision on the CM candidate. He took a dig at the BJP saying “The BJP has not been able to cross 200 seats in all five states taken together. They had claimed they would cross 200 in MP alone. I would request the BJP to shed their arrogance and come down to the ground.”
BJP state president, Rakesh Singh had earlier dismissed the exit polls, which had indicated BJP’s defeat in the state. He also tweeted after declaration of the results that BJP has the majority and they will be meeting the governor to form the government. It later turned out to be a faux pas.
The BJP suffered defeat and lost 56 seats from 2013, where it won 165 seats in the assembly. As many as 13 ministers lost the election this time, which should be reason enough for the party to review and introspect on what went wrong.
The public voted against BJP, the Congress certainly didn’t do enough to cash in on the anti incumbency. The Congress on its own won 114 seats out of 130, which is not bad. But considering that the BJP government had already ruled for the last 15 years & public sentiment was against them. The Congress could have done better.
While the elections are over, it is important for politicians to realise that the state needs strong leadership to steer the state on the path of development. There are gruelling challenges ahead of the next state government. The quality of primary education, farmer issues, employment, growth of business and self employment opportunities are just a few to name.
The big takeaway from the elections is that no one is over and above the common man. You can have all the power in the world, but democracy rules the roost and can turn the tables quicker than you can imagine. Stay grounded and in touch with people who elect you as their representatives. Public service is not for exclusivity, but in striving for the common good.
With 2019 elections round the corner, the politicians should take note that the public favours no one, but those who take care of them and they should not take the common man for granted.
The mandate makes it clear you cannot sell dreams and fake promises anymore. The public wants accountability, execution and development not rhetoric and marketing.
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27 Inspirational Quotes to Push Yourself & Improve Everyday
There are two kinds of people in the world those who complain & others who find solutions. The people who complain accept things as they are and rarely do anything about them. But the people who find solutions improve things around them. People who find solutions are always in demand, they learn and work hard to improve themselves.
The art of pushing yourself and improving everyday is a great habit. It helps you to be successful in your life and also make meaningful contributions wherever you are. Those who rise to the top are not necessarily the most gifted, but more often than not they are the ones who improve themselves relentlessly, work hard and achieve success. Here are some inspirational quotes to inspire you to push yourself and improve everyday.
1. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
Alexander Graham Bell
2. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
Napoleon Hill
3. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
Tony Hsieh
4. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
Michael John Bobak
5. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
6. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
7. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
8. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.”
Jonathan Sacks
9. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
Harry Golden
10. “You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them.”
Saji Ijiyemi
11. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe
12. “The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
William Jennings Bryan
13. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
Vincent Van Gogh
14. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
Peter T. Mcintyre
16. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
17. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
Bryce Courtenay
18. “Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.”
Nathan Chen
19. “You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”
Andrew Carnegie
20. “Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot – it’s good for you!”
Paula Radcliffe
21. “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
Larry Bird
22. “If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.”
MS Dhoni
23. “Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.”
Camila Mendes
24. “Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.”
Brian Chesky
25. “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.”
Baltasar Gracian
26. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.”
Pat Summitt
27. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho
