Top 10 Motivational Books

1.  THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

While he gets a bit preachy sometimes, Stephen Covey’s Road map for living doesn't just help you develop better habits. It also convinces you that acquiring them will make you a better person.

 

2.  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, business relationships and personal relationships were seen not just as compatible, but as absolutely inseparable.

 

3.  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.

 

4.  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.

5.  SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE

This book by Napolean Hill is a classic book for self-improvement. It is possible to make all your dreams come true - just think positively and discover how to awaken hidden powers within you. This book will show you just how easy it is to follow your dreams and achieve success in life. Learn how to: motivate yourself, develop personal initiative and self-discipline, use creative visualization, employ organized thinking and concentrate your efforts to concentrating your energy in following your dreams.

6.  HOW TO STOP WORRIYING AND START LIVING.

Anxiety is a real issue often left unaddressed. However, this book acknowledges every aspect of anxiety as a problem, how to live a stress-free and less-worried life. Worrying is the opposite of being happy and learning how to overcome worrying means learning how to be happy. This inspirational book by the well know motivation speaker and author Dale Carnegie is divided into 8 parts with several chapters. A heavy-hitting self-help classic, Carnegie literally taught us everything we need to know on the concept of worrying less and living more.

7.  THE SUBTITLE ART OF NOT GIVING F*CK

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, former dating coach Mark Manson offers advice that’s both punchy and profane. The book is a good guide to figuring out what you want in life and at work, and how to achieve it. Using his own life as an example in the book, Manson talks about how the pressure to be exceptional led him to drugs and serial womanizing. It’s only when he realized that neither he nor his problems were special that he cleaned up his act and worked towards becoming an entrepreneur. He credits his success to his lack of fear of failure. This book is a classic read for every single person passing through his youth with lots of unanswered questions in their heads. Get this book for a better insight on how every damn you give in life is a countable one. 

8.  THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONCIOUS MIND

If you are a firm believer in God, Karma and the spiritual way of living a better life, this book is definitely for you! The first few chapters deal with improving health by praying (turning to the subconscious mind). The book is far from scientific ways of preaching and concentrates more on the spiritual methods of taking over your sub-conscious mind. All in all, the book is inspiring if you are willing to let go of your rational scientific thoughts while reading the book. 

9.  EAT THAT FROG

This book by Brian Tracy offers a cure for the curse of modern-day living- procrastination. However, ‘Eat that Frog’ is more than a book on procrastination. Essentially, it is a book about goals- clarifying what you want and the power of the written goal. He expounds the 80/20 theory, and a new theory on me, the priority setting ABCDE technique. He himself asserts, “This technique is so simple and effective that it can, all by itself, make you one of the most efficient and effective people in your field.”

10.THE POWER OF NOW

The central theme of the book is the importance of living in the present and enjoying the current moment of life. He correctly points out that for all practical purposes, the past and future are nowhere as important as the current moment. The book is organized in the form of question-and-answer sessions and the intention seems to convince the reader about the Power of Now.