Top 90 Barbara Sher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s only too late if you don’t start now.”

— Barbara Sher

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2. “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barbara Sher

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3. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.”

— Barbara Sher

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4. “You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”

— Barbara Sher

5. “When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.”

— Barbara Sher

6. “Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.”

— Barbara Sher

7. “Isolation is a dream killer.”

— Barbara Sher

8. “Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.”

— Barbara Sher

9. “Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.”

— Barbara Sher

10. “Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.”

— Barbara Sher

11. “Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.”

— Barbara Sher

12. “Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.”

— Barbara Sher

13. “Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.”

— Barbara Sher

14. “Time is clay; make something.”

— Barbara Sher

15. “When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.”

— Barbara Sher

16. “What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.”

— Barbara Sher

17. “What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”

— Barbara Sher

18. “Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.”

— Barbara Sher

19. “You don’t have to get it right the first time.”

— Barbara Sher

20. “We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.”

— Barbara Sher

21. “Irreverence is a declaration of independence.”

— Barbara Sher

22. “Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.”

— Barbara Sher

23. “Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.”

— Barbara Sher

24. “Some people have a pattern of getting exhausted to cover up resentment – or one of grouchiness to cover up fear.”

— Barbara Sher

25. “Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.”

— Barbara Sher

26. “Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.”

— Barbara Sher

27. “Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.”

— Barbara Sher

28. “Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.”

— Barbara Sher

29. “You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you.”

— Barbara Sher

30. “Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.”

— Barbara Sher

31. “Life isn’t supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn’t supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it’comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day’s not perfect, it’s not a failure or a terrible loss. It’s just another day.”

— Barbara Sher

32. “The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.”

— Barbara Sher

33. “The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.”

— Barbara Sher

34. “Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

— Barbara Sher

35. “If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.”

— Barbara Sher

36. “A goal is the basic unit of life design.”

— Barbara Sher

37. “A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.”

— Barbara Sher

38. “Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.”

— Barbara Sher

39. “What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.”

— Barbara Sher

40. “Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.”

— Barbara Sher

41. “Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.”

— Barbara Sher

42. “Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.”

— Barbara Sher

43. “Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.”

— Barbara Sher

44. “Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.”

— Barbara Sher

45. “Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.”

— Barbara Sher

46. “The Idea Party is a potluck dinner where you invite people into your home for the express purpose of sitting down with a plate of good food and brainstorming on your particular problem.”

— Barbara Sher

47. “Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.”

— Barbara Sher

48. “And our dreams are who we are.”

— Barbara Sher

49. “There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.”

— Barbara Sher

50. “In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.”

— Barbara Sher