There are many wise people who have gone ahead of us in life and I enjoy being inspired by their words.  I thought it would be fun to start a page of quotes that have positively  impacted me or my clients. When I know who to attribute to, I will list their name.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already.

Tolstoy

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

John Wooden

The most common response when we’re scared is avoidance. The longer we wait, the greater the fear. Action reduces fear.

Unknown

A lack of routine causes more problems than poor choices. Routines turn desired behavior into default behavior.

Unknown

The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.

Louis Pasteur

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts.

Einstein

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Unknown

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

If your presence doesn’t make an impact, your absence won’t make a difference.

Trey Smith

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

Does the attention you give to something truly reflect its true importance?

Farnam Street

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Soren Kierkegaard

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

Unknown

A critical spirit is found at the intersection of pride and insecurity.

Unknown

A leader is best recognized when his people say ‘we did it ourselves’.

Lao Tzu

Authencity is nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Sir Edmund Hillary

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mohandas Gandhi

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Kimberly Johnson

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Kenyan Proverb

If you can’t be a fan, don’t be a critic.

Unknown

Time is not a renewable resource.

Unknown

Do or do not; there is no try.

Yoda