QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Benjamin Disareli

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action
Happiness

George F. Nordenholt 

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.

Action
Business
Career
Success

Werner Erhard  

You can take your word back, and what you get then is your old life back.

Authenticity

Brandon Sanderson 

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

Mindfulness
Perspective
Relationships

Rosabeth Moss Cantor

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

Success

Henry Bergson 

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Mindfulness

Nadia Boulanger 

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Writing

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Success

Mark Zuckerberg

We built it and we didn’t expect it to be a company, we were just building this because we thought it was awesome.

Alignment
Business
Success

Tacitus

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Purpose

Tony Robbins 

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Outcomes
Success

Tony Robbins

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

Action
Outcomes

Yogananda

It shows more spiritual fiber to live a godly life in the jungle of civilization, full of human tigers, wolves, and snakes, that bite at you because you are doing good.

Authenticity
Identity
Spirituality

Thomas Carlyle 

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Action
Purpose

Alan Watts

When you get the message, hang up the phone.

Action

Naval Ravikant

Individual entrepreneurial efforts often fail, but individual entrepreneurs over their careers rarely fail. As long as [you] keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you’ll get through.

Outcomes

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Spirituality

Joan of Arc

I am not afraid. I was born to do this.

Alignment
Purpose

SRF

Just as prisoners plot ceaselessly to regain their freedom, so the wise among men endeavor to escape the confinement of mortality.

Mindfulness

Dale Carnegie

Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Identity
Love

Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Perspective

Michael Faraday

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

Gratitude
Happiness

Voltaire

The best is often the enemy of the good.

Energy
Outcomes

Tony Robbins 

You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one who creates them. Plant these emotions daily, and watch your whole life grow with vitality that you’ve never dreamed of before.

Emotions

Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Purpose
Values

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

Happiness

African proverb

If you want to go quickly, you can go alone. But if you want to go far, you must go together.

Relationships
Success

Chad w Vanto

A leader who’s making a difference has bigger concerns than whether he’s being judged or not.

Action
Career
Leadership

Plato 

The only real service we can be to our fellow man is to remind him of the experience of Eternity, the memory of which is lost at birth.

Responsibility
Spirituality

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee…

Spirituality
Success

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