20 Quotes From The Most Successful People That Will Inspire You To Think Bigger
Thinking big — Many people I know, they don’t even dare to think big. As most of our beliefs, perceptions and understandings are conditioned in certain ways, which limit bandwidth of our thinking. But you can change it, if you start to think big.
Let me share a true story with you; my colleague John, a young, polite and hard working guy, who has been done a great job for this position.
One day, John and I were talking in the car after meeting a client, I told him that there might be an opening for a senior manager position and encouraged him to apply for it. But his reaction shocked me, he told me firmly that he didn’t think that he could handle the senior position, as he never thought about it before, maybe after few years, he would consider…
In my opinion, he is one of the best candidates for that position; what a pity, he was limited by his own small thinking. He never applied for that position.
I was inspired Bob Proctor about this idea of ‘Thinking”, in fact many of us don’t even think, don’t mention about think big! And we are not aware about it as we thought we are thinking.
He mentioned that Mental activity doesn’t constitute thinking, thinking is happening in our intellect and conscious mind with many other feelings. And many of us have mistaken our feelings and conditioned understandings/beliefs/perceptions as thinking.
Have you ever noticed that you can do lots of things without thinking? For example, you can drive home safely while thinking about your job, game, food and etc. Your daily routines are the best examples of habitual behaviors, we seldom think when we perform those activities.
Having understood the importance of thinking and thinking big, I started to force myself to think and think big. Here I have 20 quotes that inspired me to think bigger and become stronger throughout my daily life and business venture.
I hope those quotes from the most successful people will also inspire and motivate you to think bigger.
- “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie
2. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
3. “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway
4. “If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.” — Paulo Coelho
5. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
6. “It’s never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.” — Paul Bourget
7. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
8. “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.” — Rashedur Ryan Rahman
9. “Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.” — David J. Schwartz
10.“Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” ―Germany Kent
11. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs
12.“The ability to ask for something extraordinary will get you far.” — Donald Trump
13.“If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough.” — Richard Branson
14. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
15. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
16. “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
17. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
18. “Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” — Stephen Hawking
19. “I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.” — Elon Musk
20. “What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction.” — Oprah Winfrey
Hope you like the above quotes, inspiration and motivations won’t last too long, repetition is the key. In order to strengthen your mental ability to think bigger, read those quotes and other articles to help you stay on track.
Feel free to leave your comments or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you:)
