Guy Finley Quotes

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.