Reinventing Yourself Quotes

“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Losing is not the same as being defeated.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Happiness comes from growth, not comfort.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do. Action defeats fear, just as scissors cut paper.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“You can replace any pattern of behavior (or thought) with another. All it takes is relentless practice.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The more you do, the more you can do.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“No one creates a great life without reconnecting to the enthusiasm experienced in childhood.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“If you help others, you will be helped,”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“All courageous people have fear. They just do things anyway,”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Reinvention involves growing up. Growing above and beyond the hurts and memories of the past”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“your mind was given to you to use to create the person you want to be.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“as you continue in action, the fear dissolves, like a fist full of salt in the river.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Self-concept," says Nathaniel Branden, "is destiny.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Absolute focus is the key to all great human achievement. Its opposite, preoccupation, is the enemy of all achievement.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Responsibility is powerful when thought of in its positive sense. It is the ability to choose our responses.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

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The knowledge of how to swim or ride a bicycle cannot be passed along, or taught in a seminar-it must be”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can't be wounded. Spirit can't be wounded.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“How you program your mind is what will reinvent who you are.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The wizard didn't give anything to the Tin Man that he didn't already have.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be