5 inspirational quotes that will change your life

1. Always be the first-rate version of yourself and never be the second-rate version of others.

I believe that having idols helps people accept and imitate their excellent qualities (such as perseverance, etc.). But it would be foolish to completely copy someone else and become a "second-rate version" of him/her. For example, I like Winston Churchill. I appreciate his perseverance and his perspective on success. But I don't agree with some aspects of him. I take the best of it and use it as my own example. At the same time get rid of the dross and discard the negative qualities.

2. Action is the true measure of wisdom

In fact, Andrew Carnegie, the world’s richest man, said this a hundred years ago. I see too many people entering institutions of higher learning and hearing their teachers say that I must study hard, memorize some basic texts, and become "someone" in the future. Then I couldn't help but think of Bill Gates who dropped out of school, and Stephen Jobs who dropped out of school. Hundreds of successful people have given up high school and college. They did not choose to memorize basic knowledge as a way to cultivate themselves, but chose to take action - making success and failure their main actions. This is their wisdom, and they get great wealth from it.

Every morning, when I open my eyes, I tell myself: Whether I am happy or unhappy today is not caused by what happened to me, but by myself. I get to choose how things go.

3. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is yet to come. I can only live well every today, the only today.

Yesterday’s tomorrow is today. Tomorrow's yesterday is today. Why dwell on the past (don’t rush to correct me yet, you can indeed learn a lot by judging the past). But I find that some people are too forward-looking and backward-looking. Why not think about "now"? Why not carpe diem? If your answer is "no," then it's time to reconsider.

4. The biggest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.

These sentences all teach us: Don’t be afraid of failure. If you fail, try again. Take babies, for example. When a baby falls as a toddler, he or she doesn't sit down and say, "Damn, I failed, I give up." And not one of them will do that. They will try again and again. If one path doesn't work, then find other paths and keep trying. The fear of failure is simply a quality created by society, no one is born with a fear of failure, remember this.

5. It is better to do something and make a mistake than to do nothing in order not to make a mistake.

You don’t have to wait until the time is completely ripe to take action. It may be difficult at first, but as time goes by, you will become familiar with your career. There's never a perfect time, so when you feel like it's not the right time to do something, do it first before talking about it.