Catalyst Quotes

“I Expect Miracles”

“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”     (Les Brown)

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“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”     (Bob Marley)

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“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.  The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. ”     (Michael E. Gerber)

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“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”     (Dale Carnegie)

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.  Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”     (Pope John XXIII)

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“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”     (Wayne Dyer)

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“Beliefs Have Power”

“There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth … the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”     (Roger Bacon)

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“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”     (Marian Wright Edelman)

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“The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized and never knowing.”     (David Viscott)

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“All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others.  But the creator is the man who disagrees.  Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current.  But the creator is the man who goes against the current.  Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together.  But the creator is the man who stands alone.”     (Ayn Rand)

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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.  Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”       (Anthony Robbins)

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“Make the Most of It”

“The world is perfect.  It’s a mess.  It has always been a mess.  We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”    (Joseph Campbell)

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“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?  This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”   (Thomas Merton)

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“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing.  If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.  You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one.  It is your choice.”     (Osho)

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“The next time you feel lonely, disconnected or unappreciated, consider that unlike many other maladies, this one hits everyone.  And unlike other challenges, this one is easily overcome by realizing that you can cure the problem by connecting, appreciating and leading.

The minute we realize that the person sitting next to us needs us (and our tribe, our forward motion and the value we create), we’re able to extinguish their aloneness as well as ours.

When you shine a light, both of you can see better.”      (Seth Godin)

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“When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?  Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame?  Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car?  Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement?  Of course not.  What will matter then will be people.  If relationships will matter most then, shouldn’t they matter most now?”    (Max Lucado)

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“This bright, new day … complete with 24 hours of opportunities, choices, and attitudes … a perfectly matched set of 1440 minutes.  This unique gift, this one day, cannot be exchanged, replaced or refunded. Handle with care.  Make the most of it.  There is only one to a customer.”     (Author Unknown)

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“Throw Your Heart Over the Wall”

“Warning:  Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind, your body and your heart.”    (Sam Keen)

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“He came to a wall so high he feared his tiny horse could not carry him over; but the fairy king said to him, ‘Throw your heart over the wall, then follow it!’  So [the mortal] rode fearlessly at the wall, with his heart already bravely past it, and went safely over it.”     (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans.  And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dreams was our fate.”    (Ben Okri)

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“Every day, either you live by priorities or you live by pressures.  There is no other option.  Either you decide what is important in your life, or you let other people decide what is important in your life.”    (Rick Warren)

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“Dreams are really the thoughts that you have hidden in your heart.  When you start a brand new day, let your heart show you the way and make a dream or two come true.” (‘Land of Make Believe’ by Chuck Mangione)

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“Most of the things we think of today as hard, practical and even indispensable were once merely dreams.”    (Carroll)

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“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”    (Langston Hughes)

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“Do Something”

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.  Impossible is not a fact.  It’s an opinion.  Impossible is not a declaration.  It’s a dare.  Impossible is potential.  Impossible is temporary.  Impossible is nothing.”     (Muhammed Ali)

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“Do something.  If it doesn’t work, do something else.  No idea is too crazy.”    (Jim Hightower)

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“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.     (Harrison Ford)

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“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.  I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”     (Milton Berle)

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“If we don’t change, we don’t grow.  If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”     (Gail Sheehy)

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“He is able who thinks he is able.”     (Buddha)

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“Five Frogs on a Log; Do the Impossible”

“As we go about our daily lives, it is important to remember that we always find what we’re looking for.  If you set out today thinking that this is going to be a bad day, shortly things will begin to order themselves to meet your expectation.  Conversely, if you set out with an expectation of greatness, this can be one of the greatest days of your life.”     (Jim Stovall)

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“Someday, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life.  But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.  Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.”    (Phillips Brooks)

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“Five frogs are sitting on a log.  Four decide to jump off.  How many are left?  Answer: five. Why?  Because there’s a difference between deciding and doing.”    (Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt, Five Frogs on a Log)

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“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”      (St. Francis of Assisi)

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“Seek first to understand and then to be understood.”    (Stephen R. Covey)

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“Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.”     (Richard Bach)

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“Challenge? Just Do It!”

“As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.  I trust that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”     (Marianne Williamson)

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“How does a person make a difference?  The history of the world is simply a chronicle of the deeds of a small number of ordinary people who had extraordinary levels of commitment.” (Anthony Robbins)

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“If you get caught up in things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect those things over which you have control.”     (John Wooden)

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“When someone offers you a challenge, don’t think of all the reasons why you can’t do it.  Instead, say, ‘Yes!’  Then figure out how you’ll get it done.”     (Katherine Hudson, W. H. Brady Company)

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“Monuments are a hoax!

A conspiracy designed by bureaucrats and construction companies to draw you away from the important places.  The ones found off the roads, atop the mountains, amidst the rivers, and mostly by chance.

Marked not by placards and statues, but by epiphanous moments that give you the sense that no one, including yourself, may ever find this place again.  These are the places worth seeking out.

And as you pass the landmark-makers putting up their guardrails and snack shops, give a friendly wave. 

And walk on to the place they’ve never been.

Just do it.”     (Nike)

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