Chris Guillebeau famous quotes

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#People #Live Your Life #Way

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Light #Decision #Information

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Years #Today #Lasts

We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Choices #Feels

Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Inspiration #Accomplishment #Use

If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Inspirational #Adventure #Thinking

Pursue meaningful adventures.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Meaningful #Adventure #Pursue

Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Inspirational #Fear #Decision

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Giving #Decision #May

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Money #Letters #Remember

To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Jobs #Regret #Different

Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Thinking #Choices #Possibility

Say yes to everything you’re excited about or afraid of.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Excited

It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there?
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Lonely #Fun #Safe

We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Gratitude #Want #Alive

Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#World #Were Meant To Be #Meant To Be

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Winning #Battle #Action

Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Thinking #Innovation #Usefulness

I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Motivation #Missing #Would Be

The choices we make now affect the opportunities available in the future
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Opportunity #Choices

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Past #Reflecting

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Long #Mind Your Own Business #Assets

If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Balance #Agonizing #Excited

Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Meaningful #People #Feelings

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Thinking #Firsts

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Helping Others #Helping #Plenty

1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?
-- Chris Guillebeau

#World #Want #Offers

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Ideas #Failing #Standards

Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Achievement

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Want #Achieve

Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Dream #Regret #Night

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Odds #Boring #Draws

Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.
-- Chris Guillebeau

#Giving #Permission #Wanted