Quotes Corner

Additional quotes:

• disagreement is the essence of debate; debate is the essence of learning; learning is the essence of civilisation

These are a selection of quotations and sayings we’ve collected over the years. Please feel free to offer more of your own…!

• Before you put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you first have to take off your own
• No one can make you feel bad without your consent
• Seek progress, rather than perfection
• Enjoy living: you’re a long time gone
• You may delay – but time won’t
• Everyone is motivated. The question is – to do what?
• Who are you? Your own best friend, or your own worst enemy?
• Don’t look where you fell – look where you slipped (African proverb)
• All things are difficult before they become easy
• You cannot control the length of your life, but you can control its breadth and its depth.
• We are all moving in the direction of our beliefs
• Logic proves: intuition discovers
• We are what we repeatedly do
• Choice, consequence, responsibility
• I have choices in my life….one of which is……to have choices in my life….
• The laws of urgency:
  • 1 if you prioritise by urgent,everything becomes urgent, even the important.
  • 2 some important happens too late.
  • 3 some important never happens at all.
  • 4 others think that what you choose to spend your time on must be important, rather than urgent
• You always take the weather with you
• You cannot change the provocation, but you can change
  your response
• Winning starts with beginning
• Responsibility = response-ability
• Capability = cope-ability
• Do what you want – but want what you do
• If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get
  what you’ve always got
• Whatever you believe, you give yourself permission
  to achieve
• “Someone gave me this glass. I really like this glass. It holds water admirably, and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings. One day the wind may blow it off my shelf, or my elbow may knock it from my table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly” (Achaan Chah Subato)
• It’s hard to fight an enemy who has an outpost in your head
• We are connected in invisible ways to our fears. We are the puppet, and the puppeteer: the victims of our own expectations
• We want the facts to fit our preconceptions. When they don’t, it’s easier to ignore the facts than change our preconceptions
• Reality is a mirror of your own perception
• Avoid….act….accept….
• Things do not change: we change
• You get back what you give out
• A single fantasy can transform a million realities
• We may hate change – yet it’s the only thing that brings progress
• Take responsibility for your attitude – don’t let someone else choose it for you
• The problem is not to learn – but to unlearn (Gloria Steinem)
• Stop trying: start doing
• F – fantasy
  E – expressed
  A – as
  R – reality
• When we say:“there isn’t enough time”, we usually mean: “it isn’t enough of a priority”
• Conscience is like a guard dog: you can slip past it, but you can’t stop it barking
• If not you, who? If not now, when?
• Release your past…free your present…and liberate your future…..
  …by letting go
• In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia
• A mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension
• Remember: Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did – but backwards and in high heels!
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
• Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional
• A yawn is nature’s way of giving the person listening an opportunity to open their mouth
• It’s all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
• No one ever washed a hired car
• There’s nothing left in my right brain, and there’s nothing right in my left brain.
• Your karma has just run over my dogma
• We who laugh – last!