Quotes by Speakers - Page 9

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.
Gina Greenlee
From the depths of your well, tap your will.
Gina Greenlee
Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.
Gina Greenlee
Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.
Gina Greenlee
No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.
Gina Greenlee
Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.
Gina Greenlee
If “Been there, done that” isn’t your mantra,then make haste down your “bucket list.
Gina Greenlee
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
Gina Greenlee
Diving in IS testing the water.
Gina Greenlee
Go for it. It will make a great story.
Gina Greenlee
Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.
Gina Greenlee
Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.
Gina Greenlee
Be courageous: be still.
Gina Greenlee
Sometimes we have to break down to break through.
Gina Greenlee
Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I learn about you and you learn about me. And we learn from each other.
Ted Rubin
Life is a game that you win when you solve the puzzle of yourself.
Bryant McGill
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
Bryant McGill
If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.
Bryant McGill
The false world is full of illusions and misery.
Bryant McGill
If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.
Bryant McGill
When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.
Steve Maraboli
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.
Eric Weiner
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
Francis Chan
I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
Francis Chan
The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings.
Tracie Miles
I don't want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is nothing more sacred or profound than this day.I choose to believe that there may be a thousand big moments embedded in this day, waiting to be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The big moments are the daily, tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that we grad onto and extend to one another. That's the drama of life, swirling all around us, and generally I don't see it, because I'm too busy waiting to become whatever it is I think I'm about to become. The big moments are in every hour, every conversation, every meal, every meeting.
Shauna Niequist
I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.
Elisabeth Elliot
Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.
Bryant McGill
When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.
Bryant McGill
Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
Elisabeth Elliot
I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.
Jason F. Wright
But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray
Maeve Binchy
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
Elisabeth Elliot
When you chose to follow the way of purity, did you expect it to be easy? When you decided to wait for the best, did you think that waiting would be fun? Did you think that your faith would not be tested? When you decided to take the narrow path, did no one warn you that difficulties, hardship, and tears would be part of the journey, and that you would often face rejection from others and be forced to walk alone? My daughter, that which you wait for the longest you treasure the most, and through much struggle the prize is won.
Sarah Mally
Sometimes the most painful lessons are delivered by someone masquerading as a soul mate.
Steve Maraboli
Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.
Brennan Manning
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Anne Lamott
The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.
Paul Sloane
People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.
Bryant McGill
As much as I enjoy romance, it’s commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depend on, a love that says, “I will be with you through it all. I love you. And I will love you even when you may not be all that lovable, for sometimes I'm not very lovable either. You can count on me - always.
Steve Goodier
Four healthy ways to spur people to keep the agreements they make:1. Specificity Boosts Clarity and AccountabilityThe more concrete the agreement, the more clear the obligation and the more difficult it is for someone to misunderstand. "Please get right on that" does not create as much clarity nor accountability as, "Please finalize your choice of vendors by 5 p.m. tomorrow."2. Peer Accountability Pins Us TogetherAlthough this did not work on the non-profit committee, when peers meet face-to-face or via group video and make specific agreements with each other and they all have a stake in the outcome there's a higher probability of securing accountability.3. Written Proof So We Don't GoofTo reinforce the power of mutual accountability, have a designated meeting recorder (or take turns with the role) so one participant is responsible for recording action items, deadlines and who's responsible for each item. The recorder sends that list to all participants' computers before they leave the meeting.4. Upfront Rules of Engagement Are Our GuardrailsA company, team, or committee is more likely to spur mutual accountability when it adopts a few, specific agreements about how people will operate together, from punctuality to pithiness in writing or conversing.
Kare Anderson
It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn’t mean they deserve it.
Steve Maraboli
Dare to believe that you make a significant difference in our world.
Dana Arcuri
What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?
Gina Greenlee
It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.
Gina Greenlee
God never said that you will live an average or unfulfilled life. You and the people who programmed your mind ‘assumed’ your worth, ability and deservingness. You have the same brains and ability like the most successful ones have. Only the circumstances are different and I can assure you that your circumstances are not the worst.
Maddy Malhotra
Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?
Maddy Malhotra
Everything is figureoutable
Marie Forleo
Some live a long life and touch no one, while others lose their lives too soon, but touch everyone.
Gail Mcwilliams
When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.
Cynthia Sue Larson
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.
Richard Rohr
By music I mean the ‘spirit of the game,’ which is what all spirituality ultimately points to — ‘I hear the voice’ (of Nature, God, beauty, truth, love…). Hear it and move onto or into. The easiest way to do that is to notice and invest in whatever it is that provokes wonderment. You could call this coming back to mysticism as a way of life. We were all already there as children.
Darrell Calkins
Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we’re in.
Darrell Calkins
You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.
Gary Hopkins
Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.
Richard Paul Evans
Be the tolerance you seek.
Bryant McGill
Be the compassion you seek.
Bryant McGill
There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.
Bryant McGill
You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.
Bryant McGill
Love is not about finding the right person, but about being the right person.
Bryant McGill