Tag: Henrik Edberg/Positivity Blog

 
 
“Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.”

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.”

Gza
 
 
 
 
“Without humility there can be no humanity.”

John Buchan
 
 
 
 
“The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.”

Thomas Dubay
 
 
 
 
“There is beauty and humility in imperfection.”

Guillermo del Toro
 
 
 
 
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

Socrates
 
 
 
 
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
J.M. Barrie
 
 
 
 
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

Aaron Lauritsen
 
 
 
 
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”

C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”

Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”

John Ruskin
 
 
 
 
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

Saint Augustine
 
 
 
 
“A little humility goes a long way.”

Dean Ornish
 
 
 
 
“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”

Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
 
 
“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.”

Harper Lee
 
 
 
 
“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

Colin Powell

 
 
“Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.”

Simon Sinek
 
 
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”

Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.”

Charles Spurgeon
 
 
“Mastery begins with humility.”

Robin Sharma
 
 
“There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.”

Nelson Mandela
 
 
“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don’t mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”

John Ruskin
 
 
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.”

James E. Faust
 
 
“Humility is attentive patience.”

Simone Weil
 
 
“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”

Ralph W. Sockman
 
 
“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
”
J.R.R. Tolkien

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Winston Churchill
 
 
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”

Mignon McLaughlin
 
 
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”

Epictetus
 
 
“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

Adlai Stevenson
 
 
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”

Ann Landers
 
 
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”

Carl Jung
 
 
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

Albert Einstein
 
 
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”

Laurence J. Peter
 
 
“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”

Sidney Sheldon
 
 
“Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food.”

Anne Lamott
 
 
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”

Michel de Montaigne
 
 
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”

Thomas Merton
 
 
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Alexander Pope
 
 
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”

St. Vincent de Paul
 
 
“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”

Ezra Taft Benson
 
 
“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

Madeleine L’Engle

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

C. S. Lewis
 
 
“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.”

Tom Hiddleston
 
 
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

Jesse Jackson
 
 
“Thank you” is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

Alice Walker
 
 
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

Ernest Hemingway
 
 
“Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.”

Steven Tyler
 
 
“A great man is always willing to be little.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.”

Dick Van Dyke
 
 
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

Bill Gates 
 
 
“Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life–and maybe even please a few strangers.”

A.L. Kennedy
 
 
“Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.”

Zig Ziglar
 
 
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Winston S. Churchill
 
 
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

Lao Tzu
 
 
“If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.”

Katerina Stoykova Klemer
 
 
“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”

George Hickenlooper
 
 
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”

Simone Weil
 
 
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”

E.A. Bucchianeri
 
 
“Selflessness is humility. Humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.”

Jeff Wilson
 
 
“Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”

Anthony Bourdain
 
 
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”

Ursula K. Le Guin
 
 
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”

Charles Caleb Colton
 
 
“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”

Rick Pitino

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

Seneca

“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”

Alexander Graham Bell

“Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.”

German Proverb

“Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things.”

Gene Hayden

“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.”

Victor Kiam

“Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.”

David D. Burns

“Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.”

E.L. Simpson

“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you’ve made up your mind – jump in.”

Charles R. Swindoll

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Abraham Lincoln

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”

Dale Carnegie

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”

Victor Hugo

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark Twain

“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”

Bill Watterson

“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.”

Christopher Parker

“Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.”

Steven Wright

“The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

Stephen King

“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.”

James A. Michener

“Stop talking. Start walking.”

L.M. Heroux

“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, ‘Just wait.”

Judy Tenuta

“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”

Rita Mae Brown

“A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.”

Bill Watterson

“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.”

Robert Collier
 
 
“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.”

Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Charles Dickens
 
 
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin
 
 
“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

Lee Iacocca
 
 
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake.”

Francis Bacon
 
 
“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin
 
 
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
Erica Jong
 
 
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.”
Seneca
 
 
“Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.”

Thomas Jefferson
 
 
“Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

M. Scott Peck
 
 
“If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.”

Yiddish proverb
 
 
“Perhaps the most valuable result of an education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”

Thomas Huxley
 
 
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Abraham Lincoln
 
 
“The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”

Dale Carnegie

 
 
 
 
“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”

Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
“Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.”

William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.”

Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.”

Byron Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”

Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
“Someday is not a day of the week.”

Janet Dailey
 
 
 
 
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.”

David Lloyd George
 
 
 
 
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

Pearl S. Buck
 
 
 
 
“Time wasted is existence; used is life.”

Edward Young
 
 
 
 
“During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.”

Richard Tangye
 
 
 
 
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

Don Marquis
 
 
 
 
“If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining.”

Max Brooks
 
 
 
 
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.”
Ida Scott Taylor
 
 
 
 
“If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.”

Susan Del Gatto
 
 
 
 
“Procrastination is not Laziness”, I tell him. “It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”

Julia Cameron
 
 
 
 
“A primary reason people don’t do new things is because they want to do them perfectly – first time. It’s completely irrational, impractical, not workable – and yet, it’s how most people run their lives. It’s called The Perfection Syndrome.”

Peter McWilliams and John Roger
 
 
 
 
“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”

James Surowiecki
 
 
 
 
“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.”

Arnold Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.”

Israelmore Ayivor
 
 
 
 
“Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.”

Harry A. Hopf
 
 
 
 
“Who says you need to wait until you ‘feel like’ doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn’t that you don’t feel motivated; it’s that you imagine you need to feel motivated.
If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you’re procrastinating on as passing weather, you’ll realise that your reluctance about working isn’t something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.”

Oliver Burkeman
 
 
 
 
“Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

Napoleon Hill

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.”
William James
 
 
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller
 
 
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.’”
Martin Luther
 
 
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Stephen King
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
David Allen
 
 
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
“Think of many things; do one.”
Portuguese proverb
 
 
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.”
Edward Young
 
 
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
Eva Young
 
 
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”
Thomas Sowell
 
 
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
 
 
“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen
 
 
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
David Allen
 
 
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
“It is not really work if you are having fun.”
Pierre Omidyar
 
 
“To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”
Sydney Smith