Finding Alternatives Quotes

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.