Quotations | School for Good Living

Charles Eisenstein

Telling the truth about what is happening on Earth [has the] power to alter the course of events. … when we digest the information, who we are changes, and therefore what we do.

Responsibility

Tony Robbins

Whatever you believe you are, you become.

Identity

Outcomes

Tony Robbins

What’s next is always better.

Tony Robbins

Relationship magnifies everything.

Tony Robbins

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Unknown

You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin him once.

Business

Eighteenth Century Epitaph

Remember, friends, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself to follow me.

Purpose

Socrates

“always be occupied in the practice of dying.”

C.G. Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Napoleon Hill

KNOWLEDGE will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to the DEFINITE END of accumulation of money.

Money

Tim Ferriss

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving.

Khalil Gibran

“Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

Love

Brigham Young

“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”

Money

Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Career

Carl Jung

Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit – Invoked or uninvoked, the god is present.

Presence

Cicero

If there is divination, there are gods; if there are gods, there is divination.

Robert Kennedy

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Leadership

Leonard Koren

Pare down to the essence, but don’t remove the poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered but don’t sterilize.

Identity

Unknown

Perseverance doesn’t guarantee success, but nothing assures failure like quitting.

Unknown

Now is all there ever is.

Time

Howard Schultz

A company can grow big without losing the passion and personality that built it, but only if it’s driven not by profits but by values and people.

Values

Nietzsche

“Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood”

Energy

Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Bryant Henrie

Young men speak of the future because they have no past. Old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Funny

Time

Mother Teresa

Do not pursue spectacular deeds. We must deliberately renounce all desires to see the fruit of our labor, doing all we can as best we can, leaving the rest in the hands of God. What matters is the gift of your self, the degree of love you put into each one of your actions.

Love

Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.

Outcomes

Tom Chi

It’s great to think before doing/trying when all the information required to solve the problem is already present. … Real problems never have all the data known ahead of time. In the process of getting into action sooner you more quickly move from the partial data that you have at the outset to a more…