Favorite Quotes

“There are no problems: there are only opportunities.” -Yogananda

“Talent hits the target no one else can hit; genius hits the target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

A wise person is not someone who knows all the answers, it’s someone who knows where to find them.

“the cause of the most suffering in our world ultimately stems from the need to be right” -Quddus

“The best thing you can do for the world is to make sure you are happy.”

You can only compare yourself to who you used to be, not to others.

“You should never be reactive, you should be responsive” – Zig Giggler

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.

“Sometimes what is in the way, IS the way.” —Halle Becker

Spend your time doing what is right rather than justifying who is right.

It’s not what you did, it’s what you do next that matters

You can’t expect people to do things for you unless you are willing to do things for others.

Don’t worry about those who talk behind your back.  They are behind you for a reason.

With everything in life, if you don’t actively fight for simplicity, complexity will win…

You can’t find time, you have to make it. 

If you don’t have time, you don’t have your priorities straight.

You can’t find your purpose, you have to live with purpose.

Do everything with purpose.

You can either make choices or you can make excuses. 

Every journey begins with a single step.

Always play to the size of your heart, not to the size of your audience.

The only way to stay young is to keep learning

“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” ~Doug Ivester

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Fortune Cookie

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” -Vince Lombardi

80% of your motivation is derived from expectation. – Howard Gardner

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Without the spark of initiative, you have no choice but to simply react to the world. – Seth Godin

Excellence is not about working extra hard to do what you’re told, it’s about taking the initiative to do work that YOU decide is worth doing. – Seth Godin

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. – Anthony Robbins

It’s not always rainbows and butterflies, it’s compromise that moves us along.  -Maroon 5

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.  – Thoreau

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. – Mike Tyson

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~Nelson Mandela.

People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. – Simon Sinek

Life is not a straight line.  Birth———>———–Life———->———–Death

It’s a circle.  Birth———>———–Life———->———–Death———->———–ReBirth

You have to be prepared when you lose something, that nature has no other way.  What’s the ReBirth the universe is about to offer you? -Will Smith

“Unless a capacity for thinking is accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior man exists in torture”. —Benedetto Croce

It’s not the most intelligent or the strongest that survive.  It’s the most adaptable to change.  – Charles Darwin

People who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones that actually do. -Steve Jobs

You can either have the discipline to be free or you can be a slave to your emotions.

When a student is ready, the teacher appears.

“…in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” – Jim Collins (Good to Great)

Life does not happen to you every day, you have the power to decide

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.  It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.  – William Jennings Bryan

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.  So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. -Larry King

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to build theirs.

If you focus on results, you will never change.  If you focus on change, you will see results.  – Jack Dixon

You sleep like you’re rich.  I work like I’m broke.

You haven’t failed until you quit.

97% of people quit too soon and are employed by the 3% who never give up.

If you are depressed, You are living in the past.  If you are anxious, You are living in the future.  If you are at peace, You are living in the present.  – Lao Tsu

Hard work and word is bond are two extremely old school “moves” that have a huge return on investment. – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  – Roosevelt