Over 100 Inspirational Quote & Book Recommendation List
Episode 5
Book: The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
Quote: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot
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Episode 6
Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Quote: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
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Episode 7
Book: The Power of Good News by Hal Urban
Quote: "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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Episode 8
Book: Big Potential by Shawn Achor
Quote: "I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me." - Zig Ziglar
Episode 9
Book: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Quote: "You are never too old to set another goal or dream another dream." - CS Lewis
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Episode10
Book: Freedom From Fear by Mark Matteson
Quote: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
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Episode 11
Book: Upstream by Dan Heath
Quote: "For the strength of the pack is the wolf. And the strength of the wolf is the pack." - Rudyard Kipling
Episode 12
Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Quote: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
Episode 13
Book: Freed to Lead Q Source by David Redding & Tim Whitmire
Quote: "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Episode 14
Book: Dream Big by Bob Goff
Quote: "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
Episode 15
Book: The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe
Quote: "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson
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Episode 16
Book: The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Quote: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Episode 17
Book: The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews
Quote: "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - CS Lewis
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Episode 18
Book: Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
Quote: "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu
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Episode 19
Book: Extreme Ownership & The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Quote: "Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar." - Orin Woodward
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Episode 20
Book: The Coffee Bean by Jon Gordon
Quote: "Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
Episode 21
Book: The Power of Moments by Chip & Dan Heath
Quote: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
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Episode 22
Book: Make Your Bed by Admiral William McRaven
Quote: "You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." - Oliver Goldsmith
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Episode 23
Book: Leading with a Noble Purpose by Lisa McLeod
Quote: "A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charlie Chaplin
Episode 24
Book: The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Quote: "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln
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Episode 25
Book: Life is Good by Bert & John Jacobs
Quote: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Episode 26
Book: The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino
Quote: "Rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." - Romans 5:3-5
Episode 27
Book: Know What You're For by Jeff Henderson
Quote: "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're right." - Henry Ford
Episode 28
Book: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Quote: "Well done is better than well said." - Ben Franklin
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Episode 29
Book: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Quote: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
Episode 30
Book: A Christmas Carol - How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Charles Dickens Dr. Seuss
Quote: "Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more." - Dr. Seuss
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Episode 31
Book: Tuesday's With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Quote: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
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Episode 32
Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Quote: "Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn." - John Maxwell
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Episode 33
Book: The American Spirit: What We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough
Quote: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it's the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
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Episode 34
Book: What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Quote: "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
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Episode 35
Book: The Garden by Jon Gordon
Quote: "The bad news is time flies; the good news is you're the pilot."- Michael Altshuler
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Episode 36
Book: The Legends Club by John Feinstein
Quote: "We all must suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." - Jim Rohn
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Episode 37
Book: The Way of the Shepherd by Kevin Leman & William Pentak
Quote: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
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Episode 38
Book: Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard
Quote: "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller
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Episode 39
Book: Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas
Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Episode 40
Book: The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger
Quote: "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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Episode 41
Book: John Adams by David McCullough
Quote: "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
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Episode 42
Book: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy
Quote: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 22:6
Episode 43
Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
Quote: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more & become more, you are a leader."
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Episode 44
Book: Savvy Citizen Collaboration
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Episode 45
Book: The Little Things & The Bottom of the Pool by Andy Andrews
Quote: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao - Tzu
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Episode 46
Blog/Newsletter: James Clear - 3-2-1 Thursday, jamesclear.com
Quote: "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give." - Winston Churchill
Episode 47
Book: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry Lodge
Quote: "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Thomas Buxton
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Episode 48
Book: The Highest Calling by Larry Janesky
Quote: "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi
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Episode 49
Book: It's Better to Build Boys than Mend Men by Truett Cathy
Quote: "No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." - John Keating (Dead Poets Society)
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Episode 50
Book: Business Made Simple by Donald Miller
Quote: "I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent." - Arsenius the Great
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Episode 51
Book: Old Light Through New Windows by Mark Matteson
Quote: "Whoever guards his mouth & tongue keeps his soul from troubles." - Proverbs 21:23
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Episode 53
Book: Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
Quote: "Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more inn our imagination than in reality." - Seneca
Episode 54
Book: On the Edge by Allison Levine
Quote: "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
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Episode 55
Book: It's Your Ship by Michael Abrashoff
Quote: "The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
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Episode 56
Book: Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Quote: "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey
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Episode 57
Book: Built to Win by Annette Franz
Quote: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak: courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
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Episode 58
Book: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Quote: "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." - Victor Hugo
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Episode 59
Book: The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Quote: "I will greet this day with love in my heart." - Og Mandino
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Episode 60
Book: Shift Happens by Robert Holden
Quote: "I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed towards the sun, one's feet moving forward." - Nelson Mandela
Episode 61
Book: The Business Card by Dr. Steve O. Steff
Quote: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
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Episode 62
Book: Row the Boat by Jon Gordon
Quote: "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
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Episode 63
Book: Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Quote: "In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Episode 64
Book: Lead to Win Podcast by Michael Hyatt
Quote: "It's not what happens to you, but how you react
to it that matters." - Epictetus
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Episode 65
Book: Dream it! Do it! by Marty Sklar
Quote: "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing things because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting." - Walt Disney
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Episode 66
Podcast: The Way I Heard It Podcast Mike Rowe
Quote: "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons,or the winds, but you can change yourself." - Jim Rohn
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Episode 67
Book: Worth Doing Wrong by Arnie Malham
Quote: "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
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Episode 68
Book: Leadership Gold by John Maxwell
Quote: "To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle." - William Penn
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Episode 69
Podcast: American History Tellers Host: Lindsay Graham
Quote: "The heartiest plants survive because they weather the storms and never stop reaching for the light." - Robert Clancy
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Episode 70
Book: The Secret Society of Success by Tim Schurrer
Quote: "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi
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Episode 71
Podcast: Founders, David Senra
Quote: "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
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Episode 72
Podcast: History That Doesn't Suck, Greg Jackson
Quote: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Episode 73
Book: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Quote: "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he." - Clarence the Guardian Angel from It's a Wonderful Life
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Episode 74
Book: A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
Quote: "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Ebenezer Scrooge
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Episode 75
Book: Story of the Rocks, Pebbles & Sand
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Episode 76
Book: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Quote: "Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
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Episode 77
Book: Lincoln on the Verge by Ted Widmer
Quote: "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln; "Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it." - Abraham Lincoln
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Episode 78
Quote: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you ocan. As long as ever you can." - John Wesley
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Episode 79
Book: Under the Overpass by Mike Yankoski
Quote: "It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars." - Richard Paul Evans
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Episode 80
Book: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Quote: "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
Episode 81
Book: Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinise
Quote: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - W. Clement Stone
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Episode 82
Book: The Trident by Jason Redman
Quote: "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - FDR
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Episode 83
Book: The Generosity Factor by Ken Blanchard & Truett Cathy
Quote: "Music is the universal language of mankind." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Episode 84
Book: How to Be a Coffee Bean by Jon Gordon
Quote: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
Episode 85
Podcast: A Bit of Optimism, Simon Sinek
Quote: "I'm a great believer in luck and find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Episode 86
Chinese Proverb: "If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetme, help someone else."
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Episode 87
Book: Sparks of Truth by Emmet Fox
Quote: "Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." - Sheryl Sandberg
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Episode 88
Book: Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development by Ryan Leak
Quote: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
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Episode 89
Book: The Richest Man In Babylon by George Samuel Clason
Quote: "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." - Roy Goodman
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Episode 90
Book: Why Leaders Fail by Mary Kelly/Peter Stark
Quote: "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
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Episode 91
Book: Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
Quote: "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
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Episode 92
Book: Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
Quote: "Today I do what others won't, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don't." - Jerry Rice
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Episode 93
Book: Elevate by Robert Glazer
Quote: "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn
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Episode 94
Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
Quote: "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." - Harvey Firestone
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Episode 95
Book: The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews
Quote: "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose." - Viktor Frankl
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Episode 96
Book: Acres of Diamonds by Russel Conwell
Quote: "If you are not willing to learn, not one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you." - Zig Ziglar
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Episode 97
Book: The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by William McRaven
Quote: "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." - George Washington Carver
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Episode 98
Book: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Quote: "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
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Episode 99
Book: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
Quote: "The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life." - Hal Elrod
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Episode 100
Quote: "Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them." - Brene Brown