QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Nolan Bushnell

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Unknown

The world is in short supply of truth-tellers. If you can be an authentic one, enough people will listen. 

Authenticity
Integrity

Lao Tzu

Those brave in killing will be killed. Those brave in not killing will live.

Action
Responsibility
Values

David Stern

Teams that are managed well do well, both on the court and financially.

Business
Leadership
Money

Chad 

All transformation begins with what’s so.

Authenticity

Jean-Louis Servan Schreiber

Today, most of us have a problem managing our time and are unaware that the problem is treatable.

Action
Time

Albert Einstein

A problem cannot be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it.

Mindfulness
Outcomes
Success

Bertrand Russell 

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Emotions
Values

Unknown

This is our journey from the head to the heart.  It is our journey from “me” consciousness to “we” consciousness.

Leadership
Mindfulness
Spirituality

Marian Wright Edelman

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Outcomes
Perspective

Scott Adams

Simplicity is always compelling.

Integrity
Leadership

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

Emotions
Happiness

Christiane Northrup 

The energy of death is very much the same as the energy of birth.

Spirituality

Thomas Henry Huxley 

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Action
Purpose
Spirituality

Jim Rohn

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Alignment
Integrity
Outcomes

Tennessee Williams

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

Authenticity

Martha Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will…

Action
Happiness

Clark Whitworth 

A happy leader leads many people.

Happiness
Leadership

Pascal, Pensées

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.

Emotions

T.S. Eliot

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Perspective
Success

Jim Carrey

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they’d see it wasn’t the answer to anything.

Success
Values

Pablo Picasso 

When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

Integrity
Values

Mark Twain 

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Success

Jim Carrey

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Love
Success

Jim Carrey

Hurt me with the truth, but never comfort me with a lie.

Integrity

Unknown

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision. 

Action

Joseph Campbell

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

Joseph Campbell

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we…

Perspective

Joseph Campbell

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they…

Zen saying 

Don’t seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.

Authenticity
Happiness
Presence

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