100 Quotes from Steve Chandler’s Books

Gathered by: Hamed Latafat

1. Make each day your masterpiece.

2. When you face the sun, the shadows always fall behind you.

3. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

4. No one can make me feel inferior without my permission.

5. Why should the way we feel depend on the thoughts in someone else’s head?

6. Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

7. We can look for the gold or look for the filth, and what we look for we find.

8. Thinking is the hardest work we ever do, which is why so few of us ever do it.

9. Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

10. Anything human beings repeat they get more skillful at, including misery.

11. Practice is the secret weapon to success.

12. The longer I have a habit, the more fun it is to break.

13. You can’t leave a place you’ve never been.

14. Nobody comes.

15. A goal without an action plan is a day dream

16. One hour of planning saves three hours of execution.

17. A person, who does not make a choice, makes a choice.

18. You have no personality, that each of us has a fixed personality is a complete myth.

19. You can’t change people. You must be the change you wish to see in others.

20. Our perceptions determine our behaviors.

21. Words are stronger than drugs and they operate on the brain in remarkably similar way.

22. Nothing succeeds like a failure.

23. The brain is like the muscle in your arm, when you use it, it gets strong and quick.

When you don’t, it grows weak and slow. In other words Use it or lose it.

24. Fake it until you make it.

25. We become what we think about most of the time.

26. Create a vision of who you want to be and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

27. Dreaming is the design stage of creating the future. Imagine yourself living a motivated life.

28. You’ll gather energy and inspiration by being the character you want to play.

29. If you can dream it, you can do it.

30. It's not what a vision is, it's what a vision does.

31. Losers visualize the penalties of failure and winners visualize the rewards of success.

32. The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

33. Your life’s meaning is the difference that it makes.

If it doesn’t make a difference, it has no meaning.

34. Preoccupation is the enemy of all achievements.

35. It’s hard to be aggressive when you’re confused.

36. Anything you pay attention to will expand. What you focus on grows.

37. Simplify your life.

38. The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self discipline

necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

39. Discipline is remembering what you want.

40. It’s easy to say no to something if you’ve already said yes to something better.

41. When we say no to temptation, the power of that temptation passes into our will power.

42. The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you.

43. Procrastination is only a habit. It's not a part of anyone's personality.

44. If a thing worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

45. There wasn't any job that couldn't be handled if you break it down into small pieces.

46. It isn’t important how fast you are doing the job. What’s important is that you are doing it.

47. The slower you start something, the faster you will be finished.

48. The more you do, the more you can do.

49. There is only one thing to do.

50. There is nothing as useless as doing effectively that which should not be done at all.

51. Nothing is as fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

52. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

53. Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.

54. A life spend making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful

than a life spent in doing nothing.

55. The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

56. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.

The amount of work is the same.

57. How to do is never the problem. Wanting to do is always the problem.

58. If you’ve got something hard to do and you’re hesitant to do it,

pick out something even harder and do that first.

59. If I had done it before, I’d have more courage now.

60. Do the thing and you shall have the power.

61. How you do anything is how you do everything.

62. First things first.

63. Do the worst first.

64. Action is eloquence.

65. Every solution has a problem.

66. Every problem carries a gift inside it.

67. If you see yourself as the problem, you can see yourself as the solution.

68. The significant problems we face can't be solved at the same level of thinking

we were at, when we created them.

69. Things do not change, we change.

70. Changing is nothing, maintaining is everything.

71. The primary reason that people don't get what they want in life is that they don't ask for it.

72. Great things are not done by impulse, but they are often created very slowly, so why great

people couldn’t be created the same way?

73. If you want to be great at anything start looking for your heroes in that field and emulate

them until you can transcend them and do your own version.

74. Reinventing yourself happens, but it happens as a result of a series of gentle shifts,

it’s a path not a revolution. It becomes a way of life.

75. When the desire is strong, we have all the time in the world.

76. We can’t manage time, we can only manage ourselves.

77. Don't live the past unless you like guilt. Don't live in the future unless you like fear.

78. Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do.

79. I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people afraid to go straight at things.

80. Love is always creative and fear is always destructive.

81. Imagination should be used, not to escape from reality, but to create it.

82. Worry is a misuse of imagination.

83. Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

84. Life is a comedy for who that thinks and a tragedy for who that feels.

85. Love acts the part.

86. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

87. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

88. Find out what makes you happy and then start doing it.

89. The one who dies with the most joys, wins.

90. You’re happy when you’re growing and no growth you have ever made has been effortless.

91. Great leadership comes from getting independently better at what you do

and not living in anticipation of other people’s opinion of you.

92. Seek first to understand then to be understood.

93. There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

94. If you help other people you’ll be helped.

95. Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, chance will only make him look ridiculous.

96. Shallow people believe in luck, strong people believe in cause and effect.

97. The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

98. It’s not very difficult to persuade people to do what they are already longing to do.

99. To make a friend, be one.

100. Nothing is written unless you write it.

September 12, 2009 Contact Me at: latafat@gmail.com