Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Brendon Burchard - Page 2

The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys.

A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves. Thus, too many people don't recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world. What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world? I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact.

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing.'

Motivation comes from effort.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

I think we can all recognize in some way or another that we as a human species, have been granted an incredible gift of intentionality and of consciousness. Perhaps this gift is a hint to how we should conduct our lives.

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.