I love quotations - they can be a wonderful way to highlight what you feel. Using another’s words can often put a situation into perspective or give clarity on a subject and sometimes you just wish you had said it. My aim is to build a quotation directory for coaches and clients to use as a resource. If you have a quotation to share please e mail it to me at emma@emmaransonbellamy.co.uk 

Beauty

“As we grow old…..the beauty steals inward”  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Blame

“People are always blaming their circumstances for where they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and make them.” George Bernard Shaw 

Change

“It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change”. Charles Darwin 

Coaching

“Coaching is the hottest thing in management”  Fortune Magazine 

“For long term changes and a lifestyle makeover the first point of call is now a life-coach”  The Observer 

“A lot of people are open to it now. In 10 years time it will be as common to have a life-style coach in a gym as a personal trainer” The Observer 

“If you are curious about what makes you and others tick and how you can have a better life: look to a life-coach”  The Observer 

Dreams

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly- that is what each of us is here for". Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 

“Twenty Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do by the things you did do. So throw off the bow-lines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain 1935-1910

Decision

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” Theodore Roosevelt  

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers 1879-1935

Excellence

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle 

Entrepreneurial spirit

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Fears

"Some of your hurts you have cured and the sharpest you have survived, but what torments of grief you endured from evils which never arrived"! Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 

“If you can’t be alone in a room for half a day how can you expect anyone else will want to join you” Emma Ranson Bellamy 

Goals

"In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it". (Robert Heinlein 1907-1988) 

"Schedule Is how we make our intentions manifest to the world". Lee Walker- ex president of Dell Computers 

"Intention without action amounts to nothing, so take charge today"! Carolyn Myss 

Knowing your self

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no-one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world” Proust Within a Budding Grove (the second book of Remembrance of Things Past) 

“I unpack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from” Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hilary. 

“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders, it’s about being true to your self, your ideas and focussing on the essentials.” Richard Branson 

Listening

"There’s nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head Thornton Wilder". 1897-1975, The Matchmaker 

Passion

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: The longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind". Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, Autobiography, Vol 1 prologue 

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter
least". Goethe, 

"Most great men and women are not most perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.” Charles A Cerami 

Regrets

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in--forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Greet it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Self Esteem

“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse” Adlai Stevenson 

Time

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them your self” Andy Warhol 

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you” Carl Sandburg