Quotes about Inflation : 2022 Edition

Since 2020, many of our lives have changed in various ways, some for good and some not so good. For example, we want to eat healthier, improve our home and yard section as we spent more time at home. Many of us started baking and cooking new things, watched many Netflix, Disney, amazon prime movies and people like me gain a bit of weight too.

Now in 2022, looks like I will be forced to lose weight with high prices of groceries, eating out even at fast food gas, electricity and everything one can name it. This is not the first time, inflation has happened in world, it has happened first time in my living life, so it is all new to me. I thought to share some inflation quotes from wise people, so we will feel, we are all in these journey together.

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I wasn’t affected by inflation — I had nothing to inflate. (Gerald Barzan)


If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. (William Vickrey)

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy .( John Conyers)

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. (John W. Snow)

Inflation: Everyone’s illusion of wealth. ( Anon)


Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven’t risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.(Robert Reich)

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.(William E. Simon)

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.( Alan Greenspan)

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart? ( W. C. Fields)

Inflation is taxation without legislation. – Milton Friedman

High rates of inflation create a tax on capital that makes much corporate investment unwise — at least if measured by the criterion of a positive real investment return to owners. This “hurdle rate” — the return on equity that must be achieved by a corporation in order to produce any real return for its individual owners — has increased dramatically in recent years. The average tax-paying investor is now running up a down escalator whose pace has accelerated to the point where his upward progress is nil. – Warren Buffet

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. – Ernest Hemingway

Economic growth doesn’t mean anything if it leaves people out. – Jack Kemp

Cash – in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits – is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. – Suze Orman

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero – Marc Faber

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. – William Simon

During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions – a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment. – Janet Yellen

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families. – Russ Carnham

If government will not instill discipline, markets will. The dollar will collapse into worthlessness. – Patrick Barron

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up. – Ray Dalio

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. – Jack Kemp

You can’t continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. – Mit Romney

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve’s inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices. – Janet Yellen

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. – Marc Faber


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Motivational and Inspirational Quotes:

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. -Tom Chappel

“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I give, I give myself.” – Walt Whitman

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, b

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

“Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.” Kahlil Gibran

“Food offered without affection is like food offered to the dead.” Hindu Proverb

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I could never love where I could not respect.” -Charlotte Elizabeth Aiss

“Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”-Chinese Proverb

“Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it.” Anonymous

“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” Anonymous

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have.But there is a difference between a “must” and “want.” -Jim Rohn

“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?” -Confucius

“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” -Thomas Carlyle

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.”Benjamin Disreali

“Every great man is unique.”Ralpho Waldo Emerson

“Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” Brian Tracy

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.” Thomas Jefferson

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.” Robert Collier

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.” Italian Proverb

“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.” Henry David Thoreau

“The superior doctor prevents sickness;
The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;
The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.”
Chinese Proverb

Unless you change how you are,you will always have what you’ve got. –Unknown

“My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward.” David Thomas

“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.” Anonymous

“A stumble may prevent a fall.” English Proverb

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”-Isaac Bickerstaff

“Capital as such is not evil; it is wrong use that is evil.” -Mohandas Gandhi

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made.That is,they started with nothing but ambition and energy,the same way most of us start.  -Brian Tracy

he person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”-Dale Carnegie

Success doesn’t come to you?you go to it.”Marva Collins

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” Vincent T. Lombardi

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” Ben Sweetland

Silly and Funny Sayings, Quotes

We all can use and need humor and laughter in our lives. Here are some of the silliest and funny quotes that make you chuckle or smile. We all have a tough days here and there, and these quotes are for those rainy day when we can use little bit of help to make us smile at silliness of the quotes.

Silly Quotes:

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems, I’m tired of solving them for you. -Unknown

They say that love is more important than money, but have you ever tried to pay your bills with a hug? – Unknown

The broccoli says ‘I look like a small tree’, the mushroom says ‘I look like an umbrella’, the walnut says ‘I look like a brain’, and the banana says ‘Can we please change the subject?’ – Unknown

Girls are like phones. We love to be held and talked to, but if you press the wrong button you’ll be disconnected! -Unknown

“Girls are like pianos. When they’re not upright, they’re grand.”- Benny Hill

“A friend is someone who’s there when he needs you”- Unknown

“Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.” – M. Berle

“I’m gonna live forever, or die trying.” – Joseph Heller (Catch 22)

“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.” – Hubert Humphrey

“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.” -Ronald Reagan

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Unknown

“I can see clearly now, the brain has gone” – Unknown

Spit happens (on a baby’s bib)

“I am nobody
Nobody is perfect
Therefore, I must be perfect!”
– Unknown

“Some people say that one’s personality is reflected off of their car… Well, I have no car.” – Unknown

If barbie is so popular….then y do u have 2 buy her friends? – Unknown

I intend to live forever, so far so good. -Unknown

I got to sit down and talk about where I stand. -Unknown

I am nobody and nobody is perfect, therefore, I am perfect. -Unknown

I can quit chocolate anytime I like, but I am not a quitter. -Unknown

A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’
The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’
The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’
The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’ -Unknown

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. -Phyllis Diller

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. -Gordon R. Dickson

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher…and that is a good thing for any man. -Socrates

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden. -Eric Morecambe

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” -Rita Mae Brown

Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. -Cincinnati Enquirer

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. – W. C. Field

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. -Dale Carnegie

Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
Women marry men with the hope they will change.
Invaribly they are both disappointed. – Albert Einstein

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
-George Carlen

Sweet Love Quotes

Love could be many things to different people. Sometimes it is hard to describe the feeling you feel, when you are in love first time. We all need it, crave it and deserve love from family and friends.

It will not matter, whether you’re still finding true love, in love or want to know more about love, your search is made sweeter with these love quotations. You can use them in your Valentine’s Day cards, emails, letters or scrapbooks to express your love to the love of your life.

Sweetest Love Quotes For You:

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
— Leo Tolstoy

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
— Erica Jong

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…
— Plato

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though you are immortal.
— Author Unknown

I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
— Goethe

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
— From the movie Moulin Rouge

Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
— Oscar Hammerstein

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
— Author Unknown

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can’t even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
— Sarah Mimnaugh

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
— Author Unknown

Falling in love with someone isn’t always going to be easy… Anger… tears… laughter.. It’s when you want to be together despite it all. That’s when you truly love another. I’m sure of it.
— Author Unknown

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
— Elbert Hubbard

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
— French proverb

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
— Kay Knudsen

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
— Oscar Wilde

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
— Henry Beyle Stendahl

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
— Erich Fromm

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
— Robert A Heinlein

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
— Vincent Van Gogh

See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
— Gretchen Kemp

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
— Thomas Merton

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
— Author Unknown

Meaningful Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is something we only achieve with experience and age. Lucky for us, there are many wise men and women that came before us so we can listen and be inspire from them. Here are some meaningful and uplifting Wisdom Quotes.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
— Grace Hansen

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— Lady Dorothy Nevill

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
— Ruth Gordon

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
— Goethe

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
— Fredrick Koeing

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
— Thich Nhat Hahn

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
— Barbara Bush

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
— Groucho Marx

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
–Kahlil Gibran

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
— Dalai Lama

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie

 

Maya Angelou Quotes

An internationally known and respected writer, poet and educator, Maya Angelou has authored such well-known titles as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Gather Together in My Name.” She has produced and starred in several plays and authored the musical score and screenplay for the film Georgia, Georgia. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Golden Eagle Award. Here are some of her famous motivational quotes to inspire you today.

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Maya Angelou Quotes

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I can be changed by what happens to me. but I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

Top Steve Jobs Quotes

Who does not know Steve Jobs? Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur,marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder (along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution.

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“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.”

“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.”

“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.”

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”

“Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.”

“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”

“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

“Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?”

“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

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Mood Lifting Inspiring Quotes

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” -Pamela Vaull Starr

“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.” -Unknown

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”

“I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.” -Unknown

“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.” -Douglas Bader

“Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!” -Unknown

“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.” -Sasha Azevedo

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

“People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”-Unknown

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” -Walter Winchall

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” -Frank Tibolt

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs

Motivational Books:

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Third Edition: Change Your Life Forever

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”-John Quincy Adams

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” -W. Clement Stone

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not”

Motivation Questions Answered -2

As we start off a new year 2013  with new year’s resolutions and goals, it is important to keep ourselves motivated to stay on path of our goal. Here is 2nd part of question and answers series from the motivational expert Leo Babauta from Zen Habits. To see first part read here: Motivation questions answered Part 1.

11. What is your best advice on keeping focused on the important when the distractions in our lives are constant?

Figure out what’s distracting you, and how to minimize them, or at least put them in a certain place. Engineer your environment so the distractions are minimal. For example, shut off the Internet except for times when you really need it (predetermined times). At the very least, shut off email notifications and anything else that pops up and tells you there’s a new message or tweet or whatever. Close those programs and only have what you need for the task in front of you.

Learn to focus for short amounts of time — say 10 or 15 minutes. Then lengthen that time gradually, by 5 minutes, until you can focus for 45-60 minutes at a time — or more. And enjoy that time of focus — it’s fantastic.

12. How do you stay motivated in business when you have never done something before & the results won’t show up until down the road?

Learn to love the process, and don’t let your happiness be so dependent on the outcome. Be passionate about the actual things you do, do them because you love it, and you’ll stick with it. The great things that result will be a natural by-product.

13. Thoughts on getting unstuck?

If you’re stuck on a project or task, give your brain a breather or a jolt. A breather could be going outside to take a walk, doing a little bit of easy meditation (focus on your breath as it comes in, then goes out, for a minute or two), or doing something fun like a game for a few minutes (like 5-20 minutes). A jolt could be some kind of inspiration — read blogs or books you find inspiring, look for something others are doing that inspire you to do something creative.

If you’re stuck in life, that requires a bit more work, but think of it as an opportunity to re-invent yourself and your life. Take a break from work if possible — even if it’s just for an hour or two, but a day or two is even better. Think of it as a necessary work session, because it will help you get unstuck. Take this break as a breather from your normal routine, but use it not just to veg out but to think, to get some perspective, to take a wider look at your life. What are you doing that you love doing? What can you eliminate that’s both unnecessary and unexciting? If you hate what you’re doing, can you change it to something you love, or can you change jobs? Can you automate or outsource things that you don’t enjoy, or eliminate them, so you can focus on creating, on things you do enjoy? Make a list of things you’d like to do, in the short-term and long-term, and then start implementing them, one little thing at a time.

14. How do you stay away from distractions? Do you do just one thing at a time or multitask in a planned way?

I’m a big proponent of single-tasking. Multi-tasking can work in some cases but most of the time it gets in the way of focusing on what’s really important. Multi-tasking can work for little tasks, like checking email and your bank account and Facebook and things like that. But you should set aside time for the important tasks — earlier rather than later, when things might get too busy.

When you’re going to work on an important task, clear away all distractions and focus just on that one task. Close programs you don’t need, clear away clutter on your desk, turn off any notifications, turn off your mobile devices, and preferably shut off the Internet and close your browser.

15. How do you determine when you’ve reached a minimalist lifestyle?

It’s not a destination, it’s a mindset. You’re a minimalist once you decide to have less and do less, when you decided to stick with enough and not go for more. I consider myself a minimalist, but I know there’s much more I could do if I wanted to. I could go live in a cabin in the woods, in Alaska, and be off the grid. I could use or eat nothing I didn’t make myself. But that’s not realistic, for my life, so I just reduce what I own and use and do, and slowly change over time.

Any lasting change should be done slowly and gradually anyway. So think of it not so much as a destination but a long-term process, and you’ll improve over time. You’re never there, at that “minimalist lifestyle” exactly, but at the same time you’re always there, if your mind is in the right place.

16. If you could offer only one piece of advice about beginning … changing habits, starting fresh … what would it be?

Start with one little step at a time. That’s obvious, but you might be surprised at how many people try to change 5-10 habits at once, to start afresh. It’s too hard to make drastic changes like that.

Changes made gradually don’t seem hard at all. For example, instead of giving up meat altogether to become vegetarian, you could just eat some vegetarian dishes on different nights of the week. That will soon become normal, as you learn new recipes and adjust your taste buds. Then add more meatless meals, and so on, and each step along the way, you’ll adjust and that will become the new “normal” for you. Over time, you’ll have made great changes, but each step along the way is a small one and not difficult at all.

17. How do you sustain self-motivation when you suffer a setback toward your goals?

I always try to enjoy what I’m doing. If there’s a setback, that’s not a problem, because the progress I’m making isn’t as important as doing the activity (running, reading, writing, cycling, whatever). And because I enjoy the activity, I’ll keep doing it, even if there’s a setback.

Just realize that setbacks are not the ending points, unless you let them become so. They’re just a little stone on the road — kick it aside, go over it, walk around it, but just keep walking. And enjoy the journey.

18. Besides your own book, what one book would you recommend to help someone find their motivation?

I’ve never found a single book that will motivate someone. Books can help inspire, but there’s too many to choose from — I’d probably recommend The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama or any book by Thich Naht Hanh (Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, and True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart). But one of the books I recommend most, that really reflects how I try to approach things, is Slowing Down to the Speed of Life, by Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey. It’s not motivational but if you try the techniques in the book you’ll find that you’ll easily create the habits you want with a minimum of stress.

19. What do you do when you used to love your work, but passion has been killed by work/life balance issues?

There are two approaches I’ve tried and recommend. The first is to try to reinvigorate your work, to find new appreciation and passion for your work. This is the easiest method, from one point of view, but at the same time isn’t always possible if you truly hate your job. To do it, you have to look at the things you enjoy about your job, to appreciate things about your job that you take for granted, and to try to change your job so that it’s something you love doing. You can do that by creating projects and work for yourself, with buy-in from your boss or team, that you’re excited about.

The second approach is more drastic but for me has been so much more rewarding — changing jobs to something you really love doing. This takes a little more time, and more courage. I suggest you start doing the job you want to do on the side — even for free at first, until you get good at it or spread your reputation enough that you can charge. Eventually, as you gain confidence and skills, you’ll want to take the plunge and quit your regular job.

Either way, you’ll need to address the root problem: you need to find balance in your life and time for things other than work. Workaholism is a problem when work becomes a problem — meaning if it’s sapping you of passion, you need to make a change. Set limits — stop working after a certain time, and schedule some non-work things that you enjoy. Exercise, hobbies, doing things with friends or family, creating in some way, reading, anything other than work. Find the balance that works for you — it takes time and experimenting, but most of all it takes a consciousness that you want to change your life.

20. How have the types of habits you have cultivated evolved over time?

Great question. As with anyone, my habits have changed since I started blogging — I didn’t just cultivate some fundamental habits and then stop, living a static life. I’m always trying new things out, and my philosophy is always evolving as I learn. So some of the things you might’ve read when I started Zen Habits back in early 2007 don’t quite apply to what I’m doing today.

A good example is back in those days I was all about productivity in the traditional sense — knocking out tasks as quickly as possible, Getting Things Done, cranking widgets, making the most of every minute. But as I’ve evolved, that has become less important to me. I’ve simplified, and now I focus on what’s important, on enjoying what I do, on creating, rather than on getting so much done. It’s a more human approach to work, rather than an industrial drone type of approach.

In fact, I think I’ve become simpler over time. I don’t stress out about my running as much, and instead just go out to enjoy the run. I don’t worry about waking early so much, although I definitely enjoy the early morning and try to wake early so I can read and work in the quiet before dawn. I don’t keep track of all my tasks as much as I used to, so that at any given moment I might not have an up-to-date task list but I know what I want to focus on right now.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

Gift of Life: Motivational Moral Story

Many of us are living life without truly appreciating it. We take our loved ones, kids, girl friend, boy friend, or spouse for granted. We may feel embarrassed by our parents or crazy siblings to save face however, if we only look at the life differently, and appreciate those around us and look at both side before complaining to god or simply complaining and living un-complete life. See inspirational and motivational wisdom moral story below and take time to hug your loved ones.

Life Is A Gift

Today before you think of saying an unkind word–
think of someone who can’t speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food–
think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife–
think of someone who is crying out to God for a companion.

Today before you complain about life–
think of someone who went too early to heaven.

Before you complain about your children–
think of someone who desires children but they’re barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house, someone didn’t clean or sweep–
think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive–
think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job–
think of the unemployed, the disabled and those who wished they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another–
remember that not one of us are without sin and we all answer to one maker.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down–
put a smile on your face and thank God you’re alive and still around.

Life is a gift – Live it, Enjoy it, Celebrate it, and Fulfill it.

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