Catalyst Quotes

“Self-Growth is Holy Ground – Follow Your Heart”

“Be patient with yourself.   Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.   There’s no greater investment.”     (Stephen Covey)

“Your time is limited; don’t waste it living someone else’s life.   Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking.  Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice.   And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become.   Everything else is secondary.”       (Steve Jobs)

“A man should always wear a garment with two pockets.  In one pocket, there should be a note which reads, ‘I am but dust and ashes.’  In the other pocket, there should be a paper which says, ‘For me, the world was created.’”     (Hasidic Wisdom, excerpt from If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris)

“I have walked this earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”    (Vincent Van Gogh)

“Everything in the universe is within you.   Ask all from yourself.”     (Rumi)

“A #2 Pencil and a Dream”

“All things are possible to him who believes; they are less difficult to him who hopes; they are easy to him who loves; and they are simple to anyone who does all three.”     (Brother Lawrence)

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.   You may have to work for it, however.”     (Richard Bach)

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.   I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”     (Charles F. Kettering)

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”     (J. Meyers)

“Go Beyond Into the Impossible”

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”    (Robert Schuller)

“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”      (William Hazlitt)

“There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go … if there are no doors or windows … he walks through a wall.”       (Bernard Malamud)

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.   Yet, at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two; and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”      (Jacob Riis)

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”     (Arthur C. Clarke)

“What to Do This Morning”

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.”    (E. B. White)

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.      (Samuel Goldwyn)

“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I must have been changed several times since then.”     (Alice, Alice in Wonderland)

“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.   See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”   (Rabindranath Tagore)

“Change your thoughts and you change the world.”      (Norman Vincent Peale)

“At the beginning of the day, it’s all about possibilities.    At the end, it’s all about results.”   (Bob Prosen)

“Live Right”

“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.”      (Nigel Marsh, ‘How to Make Work-Life Balance Work’, TED)

“Listening to your heart, finding out who you are, is not simple.   It takes time for the chatter to quiet down.   In the silence of “not doing” we begin to know what we feel.   If we listen and hear what is being offered, then anything in life can be our guide.    Listen.”     (Found on a Poster)

“We make a living by what we get.     We make a life by what we give.”   Winston Churchill)

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.   Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”     (Cherokee Expression)