QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Proverb

A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man only one.

Authenticity
Values

Unknown

He who never makes a mistake seldom makes anything else.

Outcomes
Success

Hunter S. Thompson

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

Authenticity
Energy
Happiness

Haruki Murakami

The most important thing we ever learn at school is that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

Spirituality

Unknown

Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.

Health

Unknown

Change is inevitable growth is optional.

Purpose
Values

Tai T'ung

In the 13th century wrote, “Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished.”

Writing

Hyrum Smith

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Outcomes

Hyrum Smith

Teaching, in the truest sense of the word, is energy transfer. It’s a life force. A teacher whose own life is energized (vibrant and dynamic) can transfer some of that energy to his students, and make them more fully alive.

Emotions
Energy
Leadership

Pythagoras

Friends should have all things in common.

Authenticity
Relationships

Unknown

The one(s) who want to wear the crown must be able to bear the weight.

Leadership

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Alignment

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Mindfulness

Eckhart Tolle

All fear comes from living in the past or the future, which are both in our minds—in reality, it is always now. As long as we stay with the Now, we have peace. Knowing this, we can choose peace at any moment.

Presence

Epictetus

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Happiness

Maxwell Maltz

If you take action, the plan will unfold in front of you

Action

Peace Pilgrim

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Love

Wally Amos  

People say knowledge is power—I disagree. It isn’t power until you use it, just as an automobile is not transportation until you drive it.

Action

Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Outcomes

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Action
Outcomes

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“To redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not easy, that is the work of divine men.”

Action
Spirituality

Emile Coue

When the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination always wins.

Outcomes
Writing

Daniel T. Willingham

Whatever you think about, that’s what you remember. Memory is the residue of thought.

Mindfulness

Spenser Lord

Beliefs are not tattoos, they are just like clothes – you can put them on and take them off at will.

Values

Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Career
Emotions
Energy

Maxwell Maltz

Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of inborn talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.

Outcomes
Success

Hugh MacLeod

The best way to get approval is to not need it.

Authenticity
Emotions
Leadership

Andre Torrez

Complain about the way other people make software by making software.

Action

Jonah Lehrer

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Time
Writing

Master Shifu, Kung Fu Panda 3

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.

Authenticity
Purpose

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