Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: “I thought to myself, well if that’s the case and if what I’m scared of isn’t death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I’ve got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn’t done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference”.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
If one sheep puts its head through the gap the rest will follow.
—Irish Proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
—Chinese Proverb
But when you think you’re supposed to do something with it and imagine that you’re the doer, that’s pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you’re doing it.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
If you follow a fool, you’re a fool yourself.
—Jamaican Proverb
What I call “doing the dishes” is the practice of loving the task in front of you. Your inner voice guides you all day long to do simple things such as brush your teeth, drive to work, call your friend, or do the dishes. Even though it’s just another story, it’s a very short story, and when you follow the direction of the voice, the story ends. We are really alive when we live as simply as that—open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now…What we need to do unfolds before us, always—doing the dishes, paying the bills, picking up the children’s socks, brushing our teeth. We never receive more than we can handle, and there is always just one thing to do. Whether you have ten dollars or ten million dollars, life never gets more difficult than that.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
—Harriet Martineau (1802–76) English Sociologist, Economist, Philosopher, Essayist
In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times.
—Unknown
Never follow the crowd.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
Example has more followers than reason.—We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.—A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Where the woman goes the devil follows.
—French Proverb
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
A wealthy man will always have followers.
—African Proverb
We all have the ability…we just don’t all have the courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
This above all—to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Follow the river and you will get to the sea.
—Indian Proverb
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
—Unknown
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
—Rosalynn Carter (1927–2023) American Humanitarian, First Lady
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
—Paul Simon (b.1942) American Singer, Songwriter
Believe…and the magic will follow.
—Unknown
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
—Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Author, Mythologist
Just imagine you’re four years old, and someone makes the following proposal: If you’ll wait until after he runs an errand, you can have two marshmallows for a treat. If you can’t wait until then, you can have only one—but you can have it right now. It is a challenge sure to try the soul of any four-year-old, a microcosm of the eternal battle between impulse and restraint, id and ego, desire and self-control, gratification and delay… There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, led to one or another impulse to act.
—Daniel Goleman (b.1946) American Psychologist, Author, Science Journalist
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
—Unknown
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
—Common Proverb
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
—Shakti Gawain (1948–2018) American Author, Speaker, Consultant
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