Ransom Riggs Quotes

We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

There are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of great, wonderful things, and if you say yes to them all, you will not sleep or breathe or eat.

I used to believe that you have to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way in order to succeed in life. Now I realize that the rarely-talked-about secret to success (and sanity) is recognizing when it makes more sense to say no.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

Don't say yes to something just because it's an opportunity.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

The fact that you can't do everything doesn't mean that you shouldn't do what you can do.

What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have.

I have a very easy time saying no to friends.

Sometimes you have to say, 'I don't have to do everything that comes my way.'

I have to prioritize and learn how to sometimes say 'no,' even when there might be a good opportunity. That means turning down a check or a potential relationship, or sometimes letting someone down who you are close with.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.

It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no... and that no means no!

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue