Aron Ralston Quotes

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

I wanted to encourage people around me to evaluate their lives and see where they are holding themselves back. I wanted them to dream again.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

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 I can change, anybody can change.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

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

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

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

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

You know sometimes in life it just takes one little push to get you over the hill and from there it can be a beautiful ride.

I think that it's all about finding that confidence in you. If you don't feel like you have it, figure out what's making you unhappy - whether it's your surroundings, your job, whatever it is. Go out and change it.

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

I went from zero to my own hero

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

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.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

Just because you couldn't do it yesterday doesn't mean you can't do it today.