Margie Warrell > Quotes

“Earlier in this book I noted that one of my favorite sayings is “You get what you tolerate.” This applies in spades to your relationships. Failing to speak up about something carries the implication that you are OK with it—that you are prepared to continue tolerating it. As a companion saying goes, “Silence means consent.” If you tolerate snide or offensive remarks from your boss or colleague, the remarks will continue. If you tolerate your spouse’s lack of consideration for your feelings, it will continue. If you tolerate the disregard of people who regularly turn up late for meetings or social engagements, they will continue to keep you cooling your heels. If you tolerate your child’s lack of respect, you will continue to get no respect. Each time you tolerate a behavior, you are subtly teaching that person that it is OK to treat you that way.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world themselves that has them seeing things as they do. Sometimes you need to take back the authority you are giving to the opinions of others and place a bit more trust in yourself.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen—interpret, process, and assign meaning— to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Dreaming is risky. While only some dreams can put you at physical risk, all dreams require that you take an emotional risk. By their nature, dreams create a gap between your present reality and the reality you want to have, causing you to question whether you can bridge that gap. This risk alone can be so daunting for people that they prefer to leave their dreams in their childhood or buried away beneath layers of fear, doubt, and resignation. That’s why dreaming bigger dreams takes courage; it means risking the possibility that your dreams will not come true.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Embracing risk is key to succeeding in the bigger game of life. Those who lose aren’t those who have dared greatly and fallen short of the mark. They are those who played so safe that they never lived at all.”
― Margie Warrell, Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

“Pursuing a bigger purpose in your life will demand fearing regret more than failure. Courage is the price that life exacts for living a life that inspires you.”
― Margie Warrell, Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

“Twenty years from now you will regret far more those things that you did not do than those you did. Mark Twain”
― Margie Warrell, Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction’. You must start with a clear sense of purpose and direction.”
― Margie Warrell, Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

“On occasion we have to buck others’ expectations, defy what they think what we ‘should’ do and risk their disapproval, disappointment or even rejection. (This includes people who may genuinely love us and sincerely believe we’re making a terrible mistake.) Yet if disapproval is the price of pursuing whatever most lights you up, so be it. Surely that is a better price to pay than keeping others happy while forfeiting your chance to discover just how uniquely gifted you are. Far too often we give other people’s fears, preferences and desires undue sway in our lives. It doesn’t serve us or them.”
― Margie Warrell, You've Got This!: The Life-Changing Power of Trusting Yourself