Top 90 Bill Crawford Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.”

— Bill Crawford

2. “One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.”

— Bill Crawford

3. “But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.”

— Bill Crawford

4. “If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.”

— Bill Crawford

5. “You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.”

— Bill Crawford

6. “Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.”

— Bill Crawford

7. “A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.”

— Bill Crawford

8. “Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.”

— Bill Crawford

9. “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.”

— Bill Crawford

10. “One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.”

— Bill Crawford

11. “You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.”

— Bill Crawford

12. “The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.”

— Bill Crawford

13. “Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.”

— Bill Crawford

14. “We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!”

— Bill Crawford

15. “One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.”

— Bill Crawford

16. “You can’t use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It’s like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can’t be the energy behind a successful solution.”

— Bill Crawford

17. “Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.”

— Bill Crawford

18. “To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.”

— Bill Crawford

19. “When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.”

— Bill Crawford

20. “You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.”

— Bill Crawford

21. “Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.”

— Bill Crawford

22. “Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.”

— Bill Crawford

23. “Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.”

— Bill Crawford

24. “A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.”

— Bill Crawford

25. “All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren’t just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.”

— Bill Crawford

26. “The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.”

— Bill Crawford

27. “Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.”

— Bill Crawford

28. “Let’s not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.”

— Bill Crawford

29. “We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.”

— Bill Crawford

30. “Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?”

— Bill Crawford

31. “All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!”

— Bill Crawford

32. “The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.”

— Bill Crawford

33. “To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.”

— Bill Crawford

34. “Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.”

— Bill Crawford

35. “Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don’t make the change!”

— Bill Crawford

36. “How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!”

— Bill Crawford

37. “The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.”

— Bill Crawford

38. “The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.”

— Bill Crawford

39. “Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.”

— Bill Crawford

40. “Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.”

— Bill Crawford

41. “Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.”

— Bill Crawford

42. “When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.”

— Bill Crawford

43. “As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.”

— Bill Crawford

44. “The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.”

— Bill Crawford

45. “Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.”

— Bill Crawford

46. “There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!”

— Bill Crawford

47. “When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.”

— Bill Crawford

48. “Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.”

— Bill Crawford

49. “When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.”

— Bill Crawford

50. “Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.”

— Bill Crawford