Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Jen Sincero - Page 2

Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.

We don't even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We've got really serious judgments on it.

If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.

Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.

At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.

Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.

I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'

Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.

Awareness is the first key step in breaking the spell of your not-so-awesome financial 'reality.'

We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don't have to think about money all the time.

It actually is a lot easier to get rich than one would think.

Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you're sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

If you'd rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

People love to tell you what you should and shouldn't want, regardless of what you have to say about it.

If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.

My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

The good news is that you have everything you need to lift yourself off the couch to start kicking butt. You just have to decide that you're going to do it, not that you're too lazy to.

I was broke into my forties.

Nobody gets to the top without failing.

If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.

Treat everyone on Earth like you're staying in their home. Because you are.

The good news about being full of crap is that once you're willing to admit that you're full of crap, you can de-crap yourself.

Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.

If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.