QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

Mindfulness

André Gide

The belief that becomes truth for me… Is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Values

John F. Kennedy

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.

Perspective
Spirituality
Values

Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 2

“O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.”

Perspective
Values

Werner Erhard

“Decide on a project for which you are willing to take complete responsibility. Complete the project successfully. Relate this achievement to others as an inspiration for them. Your willingness to express yourself may be just the trigger needed by someone else to do something for themselves. From now on, don’t wait for something to happen…

Outcomes
Responsibility
Success

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Action
Career
Leadership

Will Rogers

You might be on the right track, but if you just stand there, you’ll be run over.

Action

Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Action
Success

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

Mindfulness
Purpose

Aristotle

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Action

Greek proverb

The beginning is half of every action.

Action

Black Hawk

The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it.

Business
Success

O.H. Mowrer

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.

Action
Emotions
Happiness

Steve Pavlina

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can’t otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

Values

Steve Pavlina

Actions, not words, reveal beliefs. If you want to understand what you truly believe, observe your actions.

Action
Values

Steve Pavlina

I say first get your beliefs in line with your actions and reach the point of being totally honest with yourself, doubts and all. Then you’ll find it far easier to move forward. Don’t be afraid to do this — no divine being is going to smite you for being honest with yourself.

Action
Values

Uncheedah

When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.”

Action
Energy

Unknown church in Sussex, England ca. 1730

A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

Business
Career
Success

Yogananda

You have a spark of divinity within yourself and you should try conscientiously to adapt yourself to its dictates.

Purpose
Spirituality

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Success

David Steindl-Rast.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Gratitude
Happiness

Joseph Campbell

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

Identity
Purpose

Joseph Campbell

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

Success

Tony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Action
Success

Tony Robbins

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Happiness

Tony Robbins

You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.

Authenticity

JFK

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Action

Raymond Charles Barker

When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

Action
Business

Paul Boese

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Gratitude
Time

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