Having your own private practice is exciting but, at times, can feel like being on a roller coaster.
Some weeks you're completely booked. Other weeks, you wait anxiously for your remaining open slots to fill up.
In such times, it's easy to doubt yourself and wonder if you made the right choice in starting this.
I've felt such feelings not only in my private practice journey but at many points in my life.
To quiet my fears, I began to write down quotes my famous people as a way to encourage myself. I would often turn to these when I felt scared, insecure, or was at a crossroads in my life.
Below, you'll find 101 of these wise sayings.
My hope is that they help provide encouragement as you navigate the peaks and valleys of owning your private practice.
Inspiration For Times of Uncertainty
…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”
― Gennifer Choldenko
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden
Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski,
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.”
― Pema Chödrön
“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”
― Banana Yoshimoto
Inspiration When Doubt and Fear Grip You
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~Bruce Lee
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ~Les Brown
Do not let your fears choose your destiny. ~ Unknown
Do what you fear most and you control fear. ~Tom Hopkins
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. ~Jerry Gille
Always do what you are afraid to do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden
Inspiration When You Feel the Pain of Failure
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.” – Chris Hardwick
“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Chris Bradford
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~Henry Ford
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas A. Edison
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Sivananda
“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” –B. F. Skinner
“I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.” – Anne Baxter
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger von Oech
Quotes to Help You Find Courage to Press On
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.~Anonymous
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney
What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable.~Anonymous
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” – Tony Robbins
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard
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Your Turn…
What quotes or sayings have inspired you in life or on your private practice journey?
I know that what you share will help someone who is also on their private practice journey.