QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“We only really see with the heart. The most important things can’t be seen with the eyes.”

Pablo Picasso

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

Purpose

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of…

Authenticity
Purpose
Spirituality

Steve Pavlina

“Power is energy with an agenda.”

Energy

Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Samuel Johnson

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Christopher Hitchens

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”

Writing

Viktor Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances- to choose one’s own way.

Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow…

Authenticity
Outcomes
Time

Unknown

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Unknown

Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Authenticity
Identity
Perspective

Unknown

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s…

Emotions
Energy
Spirituality
Time

Steve Jobs

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Outcomes

George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Marcel Proust

“Love those who seek the truth; beware of those who find it.”

Integrity

Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Happiness

Abraham Lincoln

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

Happiness

W. Clement Stone

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Success

W. Edwards Deming

“The most important things cannot be measured.”

W. Edwards Deming

“The most important things are unknown or unknowable.”

Spirituality

Robert Lynd

“It is in games that many men discover their paradise.”

Happiness

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

Gratitude
Spirituality
Values

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Authenticity
Outcomes
Success

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Writing

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

Outcomes
Success

Jim Rohn 

If you really want to do something you’ll find a way If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.

Alignment
Integrity

Zig Ziglar 

Motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.

Alignment
Energy

Steve Jobs

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

Business
Career
Perspective

Steve Jobs

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Presence
Purpose
Time

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