81 Top Quotes From Who Will Cry When you Die
In "Who Will Cry When You Die," Robin Sharma imparts profound life lessons that inspire readers to live with purpose, passion, and gratitude. Through a collection of short, thought-provoking chapters, Sharma encourages readers to reflect on their priorities, values, and legacy. He emphasizes the significance of living authentically, being kind to others, and making a positive impact on the world.
The book serves as a gentle reminder of the impermanence of life and motivates readers to seize the present moment to pursue their dreams and contribute to the well-being of others. Sharma's insights draw from his own experiences and observations, making the book relatable and engaging. By the end of "Who Will Cry When You Die," readers are empowered to lead more meaningful lives filled with love, compassion, and a sense of fulfillment. (Who Will Cry When you Die Summary).
Who Will Cry When you Die Quotes
“I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” (Meaning)
"How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.”
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,”
"Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.”
"He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime,”
"Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”
"Pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success.”
"The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.”
"You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.”
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.”
"We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.”
"If you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.”
"Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.”
"Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering into your life. Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past events or mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time. Instead, use the lessons you have learned from your past to rise to a whole new level of awareness and enlightenment.”
"Children come to us more highly evolved than adults to teach us the lessons we need to learn.”
"The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”
"One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.”
"There is nothing in the world more valuable than friendship. Those who banish it from their lives remove as it were the sun from the earth, because of all of nature’s gifts, it is the most beautiful and the most pleasing.”
"It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for.”
"Sleep is like a drug,” he explained. “Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.”
"It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?”
"A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.”
"There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.”
"If you have not read today, you have not really lived today. And knowing how to read but failing to do so puts you in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.”
"On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life’s learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: “Let us be kinder to one another.”
"Anyone can become angry — that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy,” taught Aristotle.”
"As André Gide observed, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
"Find your calling. I believe we all have special talents that are just waiting to be engaged in a worthy pursuit. We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while we, at the same time, add value to the lives around us.”
"And saying that you don’t have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas — eventually it will catch up with you.”
"Goals and plans take the worry out of living.”
"One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it’s all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived.”
"You cannot pursue success; success ensues.”
"Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it? Stop complaining about not being able to exercise given all that is on your plate these days. If you sleep seven hours a night and work eight hours every day, you still have more than sixty-three hours of free time every week to do all the things you want to do. This amounts to 252 hours every month and 3,024 hours every single year to spend on life’s pursuits.”
"Every time you fail to do the right thing, you fuel the habit of doing the wrong thing. Every time you do not tell the truth, you feed the habit of being untruthful.”
"The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.”
"Don’t rehearse the activities of your day while you are lying in bed trying to get to sleep. Don’t eat after 8 P.M. (If you have to eat something, have soup.) Don’t watch the news before you go to sleep. Don’t read in bed.”
"Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.”
"It is easy to fall into the habit of condemning others, even those we love most. We criticize the way someone eats or the manner in which she speaks. We focus on the most minute details and find fault with the smallest of issues. But what we focus on grows. And if we keep focusing on a small weakness in someone, it will continue to grow in our minds until we perceive it to be a big problem in that person.”
"on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most.”
"All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
"We spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.”
"The important thing is that you find some time every day to “break bread” with those you love most and consistently work at building a richer, more meaningful family life.”
"If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.”
"One’s sense of mortality is a great source of wisdom.”
"Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.”
"Happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.”
"As Woodrow Wilson said, “You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
"Remember, nothing can stop a person who refuses to be stopped. Most people don’t really fail, they simply give up trying. And most of the limitations that hold you back from your dreams are self-imposed. So shed the shackles of “tiny thinking,” have the bravery to dream big for a change and accept that failure is not an option for you.”
"Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”
"Finding your calling doesn’t mean you must leave the job you now have. It simply means you need to bring more of yourself into your work and focus on the things you do best. It means you have to stop waiting for other people to make the changes you desire and, as Mahatma Gandhi noted: “Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.” And once you do, your life will change.”
"There are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.”
"We live in a world of broken promises. We live in a time when people treat their words lightly. We tell a friend we will call her next week for lunch knowing full well we do not have the time to do so. We promise a co-worker we will bring in that new book we love so much knowing full well that we never lend out our books. And we promise ourselves this will be the year we will get back into shape, simplify our lives and have more fun without any real intention of making the deep life changes necessary to achieve these goals."
"The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as we hear the phone ring, we act as if we are firefighters rushing to a five-alarm fire. We run to pick it up as if our lives depended on the call being answered at once. I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners, dedicated reading times and meditation periods to answer”
"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
"Happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.”
"The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.”
"Is there a wiser, more enlightened way to look at this seemingly negative situation.”
"Anyone can become angry—that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy,” taught Aristotle.”
"So to be paid more money in your work, you must add more value to the world. And the best way to begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills no one else has. Read books no one else is reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.”
"Life Is Beautiful is a powerful reminder that living is a gift and we must make the best of it, every day of our lives. A”
"Because we don’t know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.”
"To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things you fear. Get good at being uncomfortable and stop walking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can get anywhere."
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
"Anyone can become angry — that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy,”
"We all have a deep-seated need to feel important.”
"It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
"We have two ears and one mouth for a reason: to listen twice as much as we speak.”
"Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals, manage your time effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times, care for your health or think positive thoughts."
"Life change takes time, effort and patience. But the results you will receive make the initial stress you experience more than worth it.”
"When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.”
"When you are doing the right things and living the way nature intended you to live, abilities you were not aware you had become engaged and you liberate the fullness of the person you really are.”
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” And Aristotle made this point of wisdom in yet another way: “Whatever”
"I’ll make you this promise: on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most. Rather, what will fill your heart with the greatest amount of regret and sadness will be all those risks that you did not take, all those opportunities you did not seize and all those fears you did not face.”
"My opinion, setting clearly defined goals for all the areas of your life works for three reasons. First, it restores a sense of focus in your world, a world that has become complicated by too many options. In this age we live in, there are simply far too many things to do at any given time. There are too many distractions that compete for our attention. Goals clarify our desires and, in doing so, help us to focus on only those activities that will lead us to what we want.”
"Be a person of your word rather than being “all talk and no action.” As Mother Teresa said, “there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.”
"A clear plan relieves you of the torment of choice.”
"Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet. Become”
"The Secret of Wealth” he writes the following: “When you send your money out, remember always to bless it. Ask it to bless everybody that it touches, and command it to go out and feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and command it to come back to you a million-fold. Don’t pass over this lightly. I am serious.”
"I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life, some of which actually happened.”
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
"A difficult circumstance in a more enlightened and empowering way. Dogs cannot do this. Cats cannot do this. Monkeys cannot do this. This gift belongs only to us and is part of what makes us human.”
"Everyone who enters your life has a lesson to teach and a story to tell. Every person you pass during the moments that make up your days represents an opportunity to show a little more of the compassion and courtesy that define your humanity. Why not start”
"As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium.”
"Mind cannot tell the difference between an image that we envision and one that is real. So this little technique actually fools it into thinking we are taking this quick break from our daily routines”
"If you have not read today, you have not really lived today. And”
"The most effective people concentrate on their “areas of excellence,” that is, on the things they do best and on those high-impact activities that will advance their life-work. In being so consumed by the important things, they find it easy to say no to the less-than-worthy distractions that clamor for their attention. Michael Jordan, the best basketball player in the game’s history, did not negotiate his contracts, design his uniforms and prepare his travel schedules."
"We all have the same allotment of twenty-four hours in a day. What separates the people who create great lives from the also-rans is how they use these hours.”
"And the best way to begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills no one else has. Read books”
"The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.”
"Reconnect you to the things you value most and keep you enthusiastic about all the things in your life. And as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
"And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering into your life.”
"Life’s greatest pleasures are often life’s simplest ones.”
"The Aladdin Factor, written by my friend and speaking colleague Mark Victor Hansen”
"If you are speaking and the person you are having a conversation with has not said something within the past sixty seconds, there is a good chance you have lost her and it’s time to stop talking so much.”
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.”
"Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help you leave the legacy you know in your heart you are destined to leave.”
"The way you begin your day determines the way you will live your day. I call the first thirty minutes after you wake up "The Platinum 30" since they are truly the most valuable moments of your day and have a profound influence on the quality of every minute that follows. If you have the wisdom and self-discipline to ensure that, during this key period, you think only the purest of thoughts and take only the finest of actions, you will notice that your days will consistently unfold in the most marvelous ways.”
"Become the CEO of your life”
― Quotes from the book Who Will Cry When you Die by Robin Sharma
Who Will Cry When you Die Author
A renowned leadership expert and motivational speaker, Robin Sharma has become a driving force in inspiring individuals to unleash their full potential and lead extraordinary lives. Known for his international bestseller "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari," Sharma weaves together powerful storytelling with timeless wisdom to impart life-changing lessons. His unique blend of Eastern spirituality and Western self-help principles resonates deeply with readers, igniting a desire for personal growth and self-improvement. Sharma's writing exudes a contagious passion for greatness, urging individuals to embrace a proactive mindset, pursue their passions, and embrace positive habits for lasting success. Beyond his written works, Sharma's dynamic speaking engagements and coaching sessions have inspired countless individuals and business leaders to cultivate a life of purpose, productivity, and significance.
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Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
