Barbara Sher famous quotes

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
-- Barbara Sher

#Good Luck #Luck #Way

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
-- Barbara Sher

#Moving #Two #People

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
-- Barbara Sher

#Inspirational #Learning #Beginners

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
-- Barbara Sher

#Meaningful #Criticism #Purpose

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
-- Barbara Sher

#Appreciation #Needs #Remember

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
-- Barbara Sher

#Expectations #Events #Essentials

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
-- Barbara Sher

#Eye #World #Rewards

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
-- Barbara Sher

#Love #Marriage #Way

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
-- Barbara Sher

#Happiness #Unique #Love Is

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
-- Barbara Sher

#Leadership #Real #Circles

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream #Inspiration #Loss

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
-- Barbara Sher

#Leadership #Quantum #Leap

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.
-- Barbara Sher

#Real #Heart #Thinking

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day....
-- Barbara Sher

#Life #Loss #Perfect

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
-- Barbara Sher

#Sticks

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream #Way #Hours

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
-- Barbara Sher

#Heart #Perfect #Twenties

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
-- Barbara Sher

#Love You #Mean #Effort

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
-- Barbara Sher

#Courage #Real #Ignorance

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
-- Barbara Sher

#Play #Risk #Safe

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
-- Barbara Sher

#Heart #Careers

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
-- Barbara Sher

#Thinking #Careers #Choices

Isolation is a dream killer.
-- Barbara Sher

#Life #Dream #Killers

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher

#Acceptance #Violin #Used

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
-- Barbara Sher

#Happiness #Unique #Love Is

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
-- Barbara Sher

#Healing #Becoming #Sometimes

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
-- Barbara Sher

#Sometimes #Energetic #Behalf

It's only too late if you don't start now.
-- Barbara Sher

#Too Late

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.
-- Barbara Sher

#Nature #Way #Steps

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
-- Barbara Sher

#Success #Winner #Environment

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
-- Barbara Sher

#Life #Believe #Forever

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
-- Barbara Sher

#Love Life #Mean #Sorrow

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.
-- Barbara Sher

#Mean #Conceited #Self

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream #Self #Sky

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
-- Barbara Sher

#Wish #Desire #Needs

We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
-- Barbara Sher

#Emotional #Support #Fascination

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
-- Barbara Sher

#Fool #Judgmental #Judgment

A goal is the basic unit of life design.
-- Barbara Sher

#Goal #Design #Units

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream #Wish #Endeavor

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
-- Barbara Sher

#Jobs #Swimming #Thinking

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.
-- Barbara Sher

#Vision #How You Feel #Want

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
-- Barbara Sher

#Self Esteem #Resentment #Weak

Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.
-- Barbara Sher

#Careers #Worry #Mind

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
-- Barbara Sher

#Sadness #Sorrow #Cures

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
-- Barbara Sher

#Change #Inevitable

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
-- Barbara Sher

#Swimming #Thinking #Water

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
-- Barbara Sher

#Inspiring #Dream #Inspiration

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'
-- Barbara Sher

#Silly #Self Worth #Sea

You don't have to get it right the first time.
-- Barbara Sher

#Time #Firsts #First Time

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher

#Music #Violin #Used

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.
-- Barbara Sher

#Passion #Love Is #Doing What You Love

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
-- Barbara Sher

#Heart #Want

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
-- Barbara Sher

#Country #Horizon #Destination

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
-- Barbara Sher

#Horse #Home #Tired

And our dreams are who we are.
-- Barbara Sher

#Dream #Who We Are

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
-- Barbara Sher

#Real #Worry #Obstacles

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
-- Barbara Sher

#Creativity #Dancing #Waiting