Leah Bonner > Leah's Quotes

“The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“about 15 percent of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“The secret of his success? “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “. . and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
― Cavett Robert

“But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“the worst troll is the one that lives in your head.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“My pastor used to say you’re either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.”
― Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

“Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?”
― Craig Groeschel, #Struggles: Following Jesus in a Selfie-Centered World

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.”
― Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You

“You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.”
― Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You

“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to others' success by attacking it.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“What if the only thing standing in the way of your greatness was that you just had to go after everything obsessively, persistently, and as though your life depended on it?”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Stop comparing yourself to others and realize that while you may not have the same things others have to offer, what you do have to offer—you—is enough. You just need to figure out who you are and play to your strengths.”
― Fredrik Eklund, The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone

“You think your TV bill is only $79 per month? For every hour you watch TV, you could be building your dream company, going to the gym, sleeping, writing that book you’ve been talking about for years, reading that book you’ve been thinking about for years, planning that big event, creating something. Don’t just consume nothing on the couch. If you consume anything, I’d rather you consume your own sweet dreams while resting your tired brain for another big day tomorrow. Now do you see how much money you are losing by flipping channels for a lifetime?”
― Fredrik Eklund, The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone