Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

You never know how much you can grow.

That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first.

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Taking on short term risk can involve switching jobs, joining new groups / associations in the area, launching a personal blog, running an experiment within your existing job. These are some practical ways to inject volatility into your life, and thus some risk.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

I can change, I can grow.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.