It isn’t always easy to keep your chin up, to tell a different story and to be the one you’ve been waiting for, so I’ve compiled a list of quotes I use to remind me of who I really am.  I love quotes so please send me your favorites and I’ll post them here.  Namaste.  ~ Carlene Ashby

“Financial freedom is not about having money. You are never free until you have power over how you think and feel about your money and how you invest and spend it.” ~ Suze Orman

“Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you.” ~Byron Katie

“An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It’s a gift that says, “Get honest; inquire.” We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that’s as it should be, because in our innocence we haven’t known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.” ~Byron Katie

“Every story, every thing is God: reality. It apparently emerges from out of Itself and appears as a life. It lives forever within the story, until the story ends. From out of Itself I appeared as my story, until the questions brought me home.” ~Byron Katie

“If you want something to be different than it is, you might as well teach a cat to bark. You can try and try, and in the end the cat will look up at you and say, “Meow.” Wanting something to be different than it is is hopeless.” ~Byron Katie

“Wonderful one, are you beginning to understand that it’s not reality that changes, it’s what you believe that changes reality?” ~Byron Katie

“The Work doesn’t help anyone; it’s your answers that help you.” ~Byron Katie

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~Michael Jordan

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~Napoleon Hill

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.” ~Napoleon Hill

“Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” ~Napoleon Hill

“The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.” ~Napoleon Hill

“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. “ ~Napoleon Hill

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” ~Napoleon Hill

“Insanity is doing the same thing over & over again expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein

“You can’t solve a problem at the same level at which is was created.” ~Albert Einstein

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~Henri Bergson (1859-1941) French philosopher.

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.” ~Buddha

“If you want a clue to your thoughts and beliefs, look at your results.” ~Carlene Ashby

“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” ~Sigmund Freud

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“Power is the ability to do good things for others.” ~Brooke Astor

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” ~Buddha

”One of the greatest dangers we face is that we will outlive our money. Sadly, seven out of ten women never retire—because they can’t afford to. To protect our future and ensure our peace of mind, we must take an active role in creating wealth.” ~Barbara Stanny, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming

”If we probe deep enough, we will discover that our reaction to money mirrors our inner life and forecasts our outer life.” ~Barbara Stanny, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming

”I find it quite curious and distressing that the wage gap—the disparity between what men and women make—captures so much attention, when the far more insidious problem is our own proclivity to settle for less.” ~Barbara Stanny, Secrets of Six-Figure Women