QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Alignment
Love
Values

Austin Kleon

Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.

Outcomes
Purpose
Time

Yogananda

Will is that which transmutes thoughts into energy. [paraphrased]

Action
Energy

Unknown

A man who had reformed himself will reform thousands.

Authenticity

Dante

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Action
Gratitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Identity

Oliver Goldsmith

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Outcomes
Values

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go put your creed into your deed.

Action

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Action

John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Authenticity
Values

Miguel De Cervantes

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Energy

John Dryden

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Alignment

Nathaniel Emmons

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Outcomes

Ronald Heifitz

Attention is the currency of leadership.

Leadership
Responsibility
Time

Unknown

Justice is love in public.

Love

Fannie Lee

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

Perspective

Unknown

Don’t allow purpose to get lost in process. Don’t let the focus on how cloud your ability to see the why.

Purpose

Unknown

To get to real balance we need healing.

Alignment

Rumi

The cure for the pain is in the pain.

Emotions
Energy

Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Leadership

ACIM

All communication is either a loving response or a cry for help.

Love

Aldous Huxley

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Writing

Meister Eckhart

God is an underground river of wisdom with many wells tapping into it.

Spirituality

Unknown

Information has taken the place of insight.

Values

Thomas Moore

Whatever words we use, the important thing is finally to deal with the self-destructive split between the holy and the ordinary that has plagued us for centuries.

Spirituality

Mark Twain

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Outcomes
Spirituality
Writing

Old proverb

He that cannot ask cannot live.

Authenticity

Chris Thomas

If you don’t define yourself, over time you get defined.

Identity
Purpose

Orison Swett Marden

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.

Action
Time

Arthur Schopenhauer

“All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

Time

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