Top 10 Best Motivational Books of All Time - Vikas Jha
Here’s the list of books that drive readers to change
their lives, improve their lot, and build better careers.
10. The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People
While he gets a bit preachy sometimes, Steven Covey’s road map for
living doesn’t just help you develop better habits, it convinces you that
acquiring them will make you a better person.
Best
quote: “Sow a thought, reap an action;
sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character,
reap a destiny.”
9.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Prior to Dale Carnegie’s classic, mixing business relationships with
personal relationships was considered a bit underhanded, like nepotism. After
Carnegie, the business relationships and personal relationships were seen as
not just as compatible, but absolutely inseparable.
Best quote: “The unvarnished truth is that
almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and
a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you
recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.”
8.
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill interviewed “40 millionaires” to discover the common
thought processes and behaviors that had led to their success. His study of
these “best practices” was revolutionary in a world where it was largely
assumed that great wealth resulted from a combination of greed and luck.
Best quote: “All the breaks you need in life
wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable
of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
7.
Awaken the Giant Within
Anthony Robbins is unlike most motivational writers in two ways. First,
he treats training the mind and body as a technological challenge rather than
moral imperative. Second, he somehow manages to be both an inspirational role
model and the most annoying guy on the planet.
Best quote: “If you can’t, you must. If you
must, you can.”
6.As a Man Thinketh
Motivational books are usually about taking immediate action. By
contrast, this 1902 classic by James Allen is a bit more, well…, thoughtful. It
explains how your thoughts mold your personality, and how that personality
drives you to take action and determines the type of action you’ll take.
Best quote: “The dreamers are the saviors of
the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through
all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful
visions of their solitary dreamers.”
5.The Greatest Salesman in the World
Far more than just a sales book, Og Mandino’s faux-biblical parable
encourages your to live your life to the fullest by believing in yourself and
your ability to help others. Required reading for anybody who sells. Which is
just about everybody.
Best quote: “I will live this day as
if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I
greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death.
I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day.”
4.Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
A big part of motivation is clearing your mind of the clutter that
weighs it down. Richard Carlson helps you differentiate between what’s really
important–and deserving of your attention–and what’s just “noise in the
system.”
Best quote: “Stress is nothing more than a socially
acceptable form of mental illness.”
3.Drive
Motivation comes from the judicious use of carrots and sticks, right.
Not so, says author Daniel Pink. His book illustrates the fact that motivation
comes from many sources and that, at the highest level of performance,
motivation come from your deepest and most profound sense of who you are and
want to be.
Best quote: “For artists, scientists,
inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation–the drive
to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing –is
essential for high levels of creativity.”
2.The Power of Positive Thinking
When it was first published, both psychologists and theologians
attacked this book as heretical, and accused author Norman Vincent Peale of
being a crank. Today, science has verified the book’s basic concept–that being optimistic
makes you healthier and happier and thus more likely to succeed.
Best quote: “Action is a great restorer and
builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or
adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at
all.”
1.Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
This is “The Book” for any one who wants to bring about a big change in
the world .Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over
two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members,
friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — this is the acclaimed,
internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness.
Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense
personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious
drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies,
music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Best quote : ” I want to put a
ding in the Universe”
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