"Hold space for your personhood. You don’t need permission from anyone else to flourish. You don’t have to wait for other people to catch up to you. It is OK to walk boldly ahead. Go to yoga. Run. Wake up early and have quiet time. Practice your art. Buy yourself flowers. Be dedicated to your dreams. Be accountable to yourself. Don’t give so much of yourself to others that you begin to disappear from your own story."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"You must begin this journey by finding a new way to treat fear. You have to change your relationship with fear. The best way to do that is to follow through with it. This means that you must look fear in the face and stand up to it."
-- Dr. Aziz Gazipura
"You will learn a lot from yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love."
--Cheryl Strayed
"Here’s a critical point: Once you have initiated the cause, the effect takes place by itself. Once you have pushed the rock down the hill, it rolls by itself, by the law of gravity. Once you have planted a positive or negative seed in your mind, either flowers or weeds will grow. You can control the cause, but the effect happens automatically, whether you want it to or not."
-- Brian Tracy
"The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself."
-- Myles Munroe
"Time is the force that magnifies those simple daily disciplines into massive success. To grasp how the slight edge works, you have to view your actions through the eyes of time. Difficult takes a little time; impossible takes just a little longer."
-- Jeff Olson
"As you move forward on the success journey, you need to remember that what happens in you is more important than what happens to you. You can control your attitudes as you travel on the journey, but you have no control over the actions of others. You can choose what to put on your calendar, but you can't control today's circumstances. Unfortunately, the majority of the fear and stress that people experience in life is from things they can do nothing about. Don't let that happen to you."
-- John C. Maxwell
"The most important application of the law of cause and effect is this: Thoughts are causes, and conditions are effects. Your thought is creative. You determine what happens to you by the thoughts you think, especially those thoughts that are charged with emotion, either positive or negative. Your thoughts are like the computer in a guided missile. They lead you unerringly to your target."
-- Brian Tracy
"Those with a growth mindset, in contrast, believe that intelligence is not finite, and one can improve through effort and hard work. They recognize that failure is an opportunity for growth and learning, rather than a sign of one’s lack of ability. Individuals who adopt a growth mindset approach learning with less stress and anxiety than one with a fixed mindset, and are less likely to have perfectionistic tendencies, since they value mistakes as a chance to learn."
-- Lisa Orbe-Austin
"Taking responsibility means figuring out what you want in life and acting on it. Set your goals—then go out and work toward them. Figure out what kind of space you would like to live in … then create it. It doesn’t take a lot of money to create a peaceful, loving home for yourself. Look around and see who you would love to include in your circle of friends … then pick up the phone and make plans to get together. Don’t sit around waiting for them to call you."
-- Susan Jeffers
