Notable Quotables: Over 40 Quotes to Live By

Notable Quotables: Over 40 Quotes to Live By

Are you tired of using the same quotes over and over again, or seeing the same quotes being used everywhere? The perfect quotes that are well placed can make the difference between a boring piece of communication and one that sings. But, if everyone is using the same quotes, your writing quickly becomes stale. Or you may be looking for a hit of inspiration, and want to see a quote that you have never seen before. Look no further, you’ll be sure to find some new quotes that resonate with you.

Whenever I see a great quote that I like, I enter it into my “Quotes That I Like” file for future use.  As an avid reader and constant interviewer, one day it dawned on me that I was capable of creating quotations to use in my writing since I was already taking notes of great ideas that I come across. In no time, I had a substantial number of fresh quotes that I could use anytime without fear of others using those quotes, unless they read the same books and interviewed the same people that I did.

Here is a tip that I’d like to share with you so that you too can create quotes for your personal use. Whenever you are reading a book (or e-book), make sure that you have a pen and highlighter handy. If a phrase resonates with you, it will likely resonate with others, so highlight it, then record it on the inside cover of the book – or make a notation in the e-book – and make sure you include the page number where you found it. Immediately after you finish reading the book, transfer the notes into your computer.

Action/Decisiveness

1. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
2. “Geniuses realize that now is the best starting point for a brighter and more exciting future.” Patrick K. Porter, Awaken the Genius
3. “A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction.” David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
4. “One big difference between those who truly succeed in making things happen and the ones who don’t: Those who do, act.” Jinny S. Ditzler, Your Best Year Yet!

Change/Opportunity/Possibility

1. “The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.” Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
2. “To see what they see, sit where they sit.” Bruce Pandolfini, Every Move Must Have a Purpose
3. “You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you’re the guy who’ll decide where to go.” Dr Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
4. “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.” Lucius Seneca (Found in HyperLearning by David Rainoshek)
5. “NOW is time to seize the day, to take up the Hero’s Journey of embracing a larger, more complex, more promising world within yourself to do what is that you are here to do in this lifetime.” David Rainoshek, HyperLearning

Connectedness

1. “We must never forget that all humanity is in the same boat. If some of us are sinking, all of us are sinking.” Michael Berg, The Way
2. “We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.” Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Creativity

1. “By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation… Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.” Chin-Ning Chu, Working Woman’s Art of War
2. “The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.” Michael J. Gelb, Discover Your Genius
3. “When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we’re not attached to how things should be done.” Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
4. “Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.” Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself

Employment/Work

1. “You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
2. “Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.” Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery

Failure

1. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event – it is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day.” Jim Rohn, Five Major Pieces of the Life Puzzle

Focus/Awareness

1. “The degree to which you awaken will be in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can accept about yourself.” Dr. Robert Anthony, The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
2. “… Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
3. “By looking carefully at things that excite us we can train our eyes to see what others may not notice.” David Finn, How to Look At Everything
4. “One of the secrets of the art of looking is the ability to focus on details.” David Finn, How to Look at Everything
5. “If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.” Thomas Fuller
6. “There is no way to Happiness, Happiness is the way. There is no way to Peace, Peace is the way. There is no way to Enlightenment, Enlightenment is the way.” Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness
7. “Even a relatively minor action, if undertaken with conscious awareness of how imprints make us see an otherwise “neutral” or “empty” world as we do, will lead to tremendous results.” Geshe Michael Roach, The Diamond Cutter

Friendship

1. “A personal friend is with you through thick and thin, high position, low position, or no position. A personal friend truly cares about you and enjoys your company.” Kent M. Keith, Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments

Giving

1. “When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.” Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Happiness

1. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
2. “Everyone is born with different gifts, for which the parents are not responsible. Those who have chosen a hard destiny for themselves have to work harder the greater their ambition. [People] who have chosen an easy destiny have to develop further because there is nothing they have to strive for apart from gratitude towards their parents. [People] who can achieve this will be happy.” Chao-Hsiu Chen, The Master

Mentorship Quotes

1. “I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.” Fetty Wap
2. “I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.” Denzel Washington
3. “I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.” Naveen Jain
4. “Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” John C. Crosby
5. “The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” Steven Spielberg
6. “In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.” Donald Sadoway
7. “There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.” Tom Douglas
8. “I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.” Bernard Cornwell
9. “The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.” John C. Maxwell
10. “I have a mentor. I have… guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.” Jake Gyllenhaal
11. “What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.” Vivek Wadhwa
12. “It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers – I make sure my time is tithed.” Melissa Rosenberg

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