I started compiling a collection of quotes on my iPhone 4 on 26th December 2011. I know because I've just checked in the database in the app I've used since then 'Quotebook'.
In fact this was the first quote:
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Having my own collection of quotes has helped me become more aware of what matters to me, and helped my coaching clients too as I always include a relevant one with my post-coaching notes.
So, in a wandering moment, I thought I'd check out who were my most popular quote authors. I noted down their names and how many of their quotes I had in my collection and came up with my Top Ten Quote Authors.
You can see them below along with a favourite quote which you are welcome to share :)
Never underestimate the power of the right words at the right time to make significant change in thought, mood, action or deed.
NUMBER ONE
“Education is what is left after one has forgotten everything he learned at school”
NUMBER TWO
“Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking.”
NUMBER THREE
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
NUMBER FOUR
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
NUMBER FIVE
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
NUMBER SIX
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
NUMBER SEVEN
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
NUMBER EIGHT
“Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”
NUMBER NINE
“Straight roads don’t make skilful drivers.”
NUMBER TEN
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
None of these quotes appear in my book Do Breathe: Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done. Many others do though :)
My app: Breathe Sync
My book: 'Do Breathe | Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done.’
My Workshop: Do Breathe