Good Quotes

"The most successful people in the world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot."


"If you're not a little bit uncomfortable on a daily basis it means you're not growing. Every aspect of physical and emotional growth arrives from outside your comfort zone. So be fearless sometimes. Have the courage to take the risks that feel right. Go where there are no certainties. Stretch yourself and your routines even if it means feeling a bit uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes laden with potholes, bumps, and unexplored territory. But it is on this road where your strength grows and your dreams gradually reveal themselves."


"Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are."


"Today and everyday, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive."
 

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."


"Don't just be who you are and what you are. Move, Evolve, Change, Grow and become Better each Day."


"Confidence is not when you know all the answers, confidence is when you are ready for all the questions."


"Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it. That's what makes life feel good: when it has direction, when you are heading straight for what you love."


"Think of life as a school for your soul; you are here to learn in perfect well being. Here's a tip for life's pop quizzes: instead of asking why something happened, ask instead - what can I learn? For extra credit, ask - and how may I serve?"


"Don't always believe what you see. Perception isn't always reality! Feelings can be hurt and lessons may be learned. Removing one's mask can be intimidating for we can never be certain of what might be revealed! As long as you can trust your instincts and understand that nobody's perfect, then you should be just fine!"


"Great decisions are found at the intersection of just enough speed, just enough information and just the right context."


"Don't think too much; don't wait for others to certify you. If you are right... go ahead and just do it."


"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."


"If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are."


"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."


"If you are one of those people that are always jumping the fence because of the belief that the grass is always greener on the other side then you should take a moment and reevaluate the fertilizer that you're spreading!"


"Do Great Things! What Makes something great?? It's all perception. But if it can change your life for the better, consider it Great. If it can change other peoples lives for the better, than others will consider it Great."


"It is never too late to be all you can possibly be."


"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."


"Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us. We will not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly."


"You need to be able to accept criticism, and work with it. As a philosopher, you will have a lot of criticism. This is because you are one of those radical thinkers who make the ideas rather than just agree with them. Accept such criticism with the appropriate degree of certainty. Always remember to analyze the evidence presented in order to find understanding."


"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." ~ James Garfield


“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea as well, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ~ George Bernard Shaw


"Understanding yourself is the task of love, because it’s incredibly hard, impossibly impossible, to truly understand another person. The nature of that impossibility isn’t couched in any kind of pessimism, it’s just one of the beauties of interaction. In love, we almost move from one misunderstanding to another, but at the end of the day, one of the great things about the emotion of love is that it’s OK. It’s OK to have mixed feelings."


“I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~ Henry David Thoreau


"Most of the millions of YouTube viewers of Korean pop singer PSY’s explosive hit “Gangnam Style” are probably unaware that the song is a parody of Korea’s rising income inequality. It pokes fun at the lavish lifestyles in Seoul’s wealthiest district, Gangnam, a 15-square-mile area in the south of the city that accounts for a whopping 7 percent of Korea’s GDP. Land value in this district is roughly three times the national average, making it notionally equivalent in value to the whole of Busan, Korea’s second-largest city. In one scene in the music video, the singer seems to be tanning on a beach, but when the camera zooms out, it shows that he is actually in a parking lot. While this is meant to ridicule people of more modest incomes who aspire to the Gangnam lifestyle, the fact is that most residents of the ritzy district can easily afford a real beach vacation. Gangnam is a preferred address for the elite executives that run Samsung, Hyundai, and other chaebol conglomerates and their well-educated offspring. With only 1 percent of the country’s population, the district represents 6 percent of the students at elite Seoul National University." ~ Simon


"I believe that history repeats itself only because no one listens the first time."


"It [philosophy] looks great on college applications. Colleges are looking for mature students who will buckle down and focus intensely four years—rather than 1.5, maybe 2 rustling together credits and a senior thesis. A (good) philosophy class offers students a kind of birds’-eye view on the whole of human knowledge, allowing them to carefully consider the overwhelming number of majors available to them in college, rather than haphazardly falling into one because the deadline is approaching." ~ Roger Hunt


"Tenured professors construct courses and train the next generation of scholars. The best young minds and young researchers are encouraged to replicate what their mentors think is important, but what if those who work in the world of policy and practice do not agree with that choice? Students are then being prepared for careers that do not exist outside of academe and given tools that are not useful except to their academic discipline." ~ Robert L. Gallucci 


"There has been a theoretical turn across the social sciences and humanities that has cut off academic discourse from the way ordinary people and working professionals speak and think. The validity and elegance of the models have become the focus, rather than whether those models can be used to understand real-world situations. Conferences and symposia are devoted to differences in theoretical constructs; topics are chosen for research based not on their importance but on their accessibility to a particular methodology. Articles and books are published to be read, if at all, only by colleagues who have the same high regard for methodology and theory and the same disregard for practice." ~ Robert L. Gallucci