QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

Search

Attribution

Tags

Number Found

Active Filters

Unknown

To exist, you have to both breathe in and breathe out. Some people just want to breathe in.

Action
Alignment
Health

Maya Ying Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance.

Perspective
Success

Ursula K. LeGuin

True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero, really look, and he turns into a gerbil….

Happiness

Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Business
Leadership
Outcomes

Napoleon Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will…

Happiness
Success

Unknown

We don’t stop with asking what a tool does. We ask about what kind of people we become when we use it.

Outcomes

J. William Fulbright

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops…

Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner

We suspect the best kept secret of leadership is love: being in love with leading, with the people who do the work, with what their organizations produce, and with those who honor the organization by using its work. Leadership is an affair of the heart, not of the head.

Leadership
Love

Siegfried & Roy

Wear the cape; never let the cape wear you.

Robert Raines

What is needed for hope-filled living is not answers but meaning, not conclusions but direction.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Authenticity
Emotions
Presence
Time

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Action
Alignment
Outcomes

Queen Victoria

When I’m with Gladstone, I’m convinced that he’s the most interesting person in the kingdom; but when I’m with Disraeli, I’m convinced that I’m the most interesting person in the kingdom.

Authenticity
Presence

Charles Austin Beard

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Emotions
Gratitude
Spirituality

John James Audubon

When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird.

Writing

Miles Davis, guidance for his musicians

When you play music, don’t play the idea that’s there, play the next idea. Wait. Wait another beat, or maybe two, and maybe you’ll have something that’s more fresh. Don’t just play from the top of your head, but listen and try to play a little deeper. Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.

Energy
Mindfulness
Presence

Oscar Wilde

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

Action
Love

Barbara Sher

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Alignment
Outcomes
Perspective

Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Mindfulness
Spirituality

Theodore Hesburgh

You don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they are popular; you make them because they’re right.

Action
Responsibility
Values

Denise Levertov

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Mindfulness
Spirituality

Juan Ramón Jiménez

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” 

Identity
Writing

David Ogilvy

“Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.”

Business

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Identity
Writing

Philip Pullman

My standard answer is ‘I don’t know where they come from, but I know where they come to, they come to my desk.’ If I’m not there, they go away again, so you’ve got to sit and think.

Leadership

Vladimir Nabokov

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Barbara Kingsolver

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

Writing

Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Writing

Joseph Conrad

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see.

Success

Jack London

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Action
Writing

Never Miss an Episode

Sign up for our newsletter to have Three Point Thursday sent directly to your inbox and to be notified about new podcast releases and other news & events!

Sign up for free newsletters, podcast announcements, event notifications, and more!

Featured Podcasts

Live a good life. Be a great coach. Earn recognition and money.

Sign up for free newsletters, podcast announcements, event notifications, and more! Indicate your preferences below. You can change your subscription preferences or opt-out at any time. 

By signing up, you consent to receive email from Brilliant Miller and the School for Good Living.