TOP 5 "Must Read" Self-Help Books this semester

• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen;
  
• Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live by Zig Ziglar;
  
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey;
  
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma;
  
• The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.

Optimist's Club Creed

Promise yourself...

To be strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something of value in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit presence of trouble.

Motivational Quotes by Inspirational People

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash Quote

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Bill Clinton Quote

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
Stuart Wilde Quote

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
Hugh Hefner Quotes

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy Quotes

Gandhi Poem

God is the toughest taskmaster I have known.
He tries you through and through.
When you find your faith or your body is failing you,
and you are sinking,
He comes to your assistance.
He proves to you that you must not lose your faith...
I cannot recall a single instance when,
at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.

Mahatma Gandhi

Great Quotes on Being Smart

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono Quote

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
Ingvar Kamprad Quote

You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.
Donald Trump Quote

Great Oprah Winfrey Quotes

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey Inspirational Quote

There have been times when I have been unhappy, but I realize that I created that unhappiness myself because I was so busy worrying about the next thing.
Oprah Winfrey Quote

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Oprah Winfrey Encouragement Quote

Inspirational Quotes

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
Princess Diana Inspirational Quotes

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale Inspirational Quotes

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.
Ray Kroc Inspirational Quotes

Famous Bill Gates Quotes

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd, is to do an outstanding job with information.
Bill Gates Quotations

You can be a business thinker.
Bill Gates Quotations

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
Bill Gates Quotations

Great Roman Abramovich Quotes

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.
Roman Abramovich Quote

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.
Roman Abramovich Quote

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Roman Abramovich Quote

Great Action Quotes

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
Bernard Arnault Action Quote

I have to act to live.
Lee Iacocca Action Quote

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
Anita Roddick Action Quote

Famous Freedom Quotes

If you hate work, financial freedom means you don't have to work, and, if you want to change what you do, financial freedom gives this opportunity.
Paul Clitheroe Financial Freedom Quote

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela Freedom Quote

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
Boris Yeltsin Freedom Quote

Love Quotes

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
(Og Mandino Love Quote)

When you pass people on the street, mentally reach out and touch them in the heart and silently project the though "love", or project admiration for them even though you don't know them.
(Stuart Wilde Love Quote)

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.
(Oprah Winfrey Environment Quote)

Nelson Mandela Quotes

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
(Nelson Mandela Inspirational Quote)

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
(Nelson Mandela Belief Quote)

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
(Nelson Mandela Education Quote)

Great Encouragement Quotes

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
(Walt Disney Encouragement Quote)

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
(Oprah Winfrey Encouragement Quote)

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
(Zig Ziglar Encouragement Quote)