LIFE

Life is too short to hold back on what you love. If you do not follow your dreams, who will? One way or the other you must not be afraid to live your dreams. You are here to live a grand life. Yes, courage is to back yourself against all odds even when no one else does. A tiny bird trusts it ability to fly and it flies for thousands of miles at a stretch crossing the biggest oceans and keeps moving with faith in its wings. The bird keeps saying to its wings, "You mustn't be afraid to do what you are born to do."

"If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you."

"Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat."

"The enormity of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. By overestimating the problem you underestimate yourself."

"The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly."

"It is the road you take that decides your destiny and not your destiny that decides the road you take."

"You may not be able to change the world. But that should not stop you from changing someone's world."

"Your life is a gift that is unveiled when you expand it by touching the lives of others."

"The strongest foundation for success is laid by the merit of your actions nothing in the world can shake it"

Be the best that you can be and the world will be illuminated by your presence.

Apoorve Dubey, the author of 'The Flight of Ambition,' works with Symantec. He received his master's degree from the department of computer science and engg, IIT Madras.

The Seven Beliefs Of Success

A solid belief system can take you a long way. Success has its own belief system and when you can master such a system, there is very little that can stop the inevitable: massive achievements. Take a look at the seven beliefs that can take your success to greater heights:

Belief #1: Everything happens for a reason
I can guarantee you that all successful people believe that there is a purpose behind every event or situation. Whether it’s a lesson to be learned or a change in your life’s path for example, they believe that whatever happens was meant to happen. Thus, they make lemonade out of a lemon. Instead of beating yourself down if something does not go your way, focus on the good that can come out of it. Yes, certain events are indeed very difficult to see positive into them, but you owe it to yourself and to your success to try your absolute best to make the most out of any situation. There are many people that lost a loved one to a disease, only to become advocates for research to cure such a disease, as well as many victims of accidents that have not let their shortcomings in the aftermath get in the way of whatever they wanted to accomplish. Sometimes life does not go as planned, but knowing that everything happens for a reason can help you carve a new path towards a new life with new goals and new successes.

Belief #2: Failure does not exist
There are only learning experiences. Once you submerge yourself into a culture that does not see failure, but only experiences and results, you take away an enormous chunk of negative energy out of your life. For example, I come up with many different ideas for marketing and new courses. Sometimes, these ideas do not provide the results I expected. Instead of saying “I failed”, I tell myself “I guess I learned something. I learned that this technique does not work. I’ll try something else then”. If you want to achieve highly successful outcomes, you need to alter your view of failures into something constructive that keeps you going until you get the results you desired.

Belief #3: Take responsibility no matter what
It’s very easy to play the blame game whenever a difficult situation arises, but the true leaders are the ones that will take full responsibility, whether it’s positive or negative. You may be tempted to deflect any blame onto others but there is something empowering about accepting responsibility. If you know there is no such thing as failure, only learning experiences, then it is in your best interest to take full responsibility, since you know you will achieve your desired outcome regardless. This shows maturity, as well as a coherent belief system all the way through. It’s a symbol of personal power which is necessary to become highly successful.

Belief #4: You don’t need to understand everything perfectly
You may notice that most very successful people are well versed into many different subjects but do not have full mastery of them. They know what’s essential without getting into all the minute details of it all. For example, running this website and business, I have knowledge in areas such as marketing, design, programming, accounting, finances, etc. I am by no means an expert in these subjects, but I know enough to manage them effectively & collectively. I leave out the details to be handled by my accountant, designer, programmer, and marketing manager. Successful people aren’t the most knowledgeable people. For example, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren’t the most skilled programmers or computer engineers. However, they were the most effective in using the skills that they had.

Belief #5: Your biggest resource are your people
You should know that you cannot climb the ladder of success all alone. Along the way, you will need people to assist you. The ones that climb further and higher than the rest are the ones that treat their people the best. A sense of team unity and respect is totally necessary in order to create the proper mood from which you can harvest adequate success. When you have a successful team working together, success comes easily. This is why you need to nurture that team. Care for those relationships because the more positive and enlightening they are, the further along you will get.

Belief #6: Work is play
Do you know anyone that’s ever succeeded doing something they absolutely hate? Me neither! An important key to success is making a combination of what you do with what you love. We can all do our best to find work that invigorates us and makes us excited. As well, we can also bring about at work many of the aspects of what we love to do. You have to make “your vocation your vacation” as Mark Twain so eloquently said. If you view work as nothing more than a way to make money, then it will nothing more than that. Sooner or later, it will be dreadful to be doing this work many hours per day, when the only reason you are doing it is for money. It needs to be more than that. It needs to spark your creativity, make you smile, and inspire you. I highly recommend you check out the article 7 Questions To Finding Your True Passion, which takes this point in further details.

Belief #7: There is no success without commitment
To achieve great things, you need a great commitment. When JFK said we would put a human being on the Moon, it was a huge commitment. Look at the enormous success it provided though. The most successful people are usually the ones that are the most committed. The best example that comes to mind is Wayne Gretzky. He was never the biggest player. He was never the fastest skater. He didn’t have the most powerful shot. However, he was the most committed. Hockey was his passion and his life, which made him practice harder and want success more. That is why he became the greatest hockey player the sport has ever seen. Success comes with a price. The ones that do whatever it takes (of course without harming someone or cheating) are the ones that accomplish the most.

Believe your ideas

I believe that a life without ideas is an unfulfilled existence. Not only having ideas is important, but to express them, share them, and implement them is what makes a difference in this world. Here are my top 45 quotes about ideas that I am positive you will enjoy very much. Let them inspire you to bring about your own ideas

1- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

2- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
- Swami Vivekananda

3- An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Buddha

4- Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

5- Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
- Howard Aiken

6- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
- Andre Malraux

7- Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
- Napoleon Hill

8- My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
- Anais Nin

9- The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

10- New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
- Arthur C. Clarke

11- Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
- Jim Rohn

12- A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
- John F. Kennedy

13- You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
- Pablo Picasso

14- I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
- Albert Einstein

15- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
- Emile Chartier

16- Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
- Nolan Bushnell

17- An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

18- The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
- Henry Ford

19- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
- Mary Kay Ash

20- Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
- Harvey S. Firestone

21- Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

22- Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.
- H.G. Wells

23- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein

24- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

25- Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
- Walt Disney

26- Believe in something larger than yourself. . . . Get involved in the big ideas of your time.
- Barbara Bush

27- It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

28- Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
- Sigmund Freud

29- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

30- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
- Benazir Bhutto

31- A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

32- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis

33- No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
- Mignon McLaughlin

34- Having ideas is like having chessmen moving forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35- The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
- Lois Wyse

36- Don’t be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
- Anthony Robbins

37- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel

38- We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to life.
- Brian G. Jett

39- The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
- Dee Hock

40- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- John Steinbeck

41- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

42- Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
- Hyman Rickover

43- Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Ken Hakuta

44- I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn

45- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt