Top 90 Bill Crawford Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?”

— Bill Crawford

52. “Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.”

— Bill Crawford

53. “There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.”

— Bill Crawford

54. “Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.”

— Bill Crawford

55. “Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.”

— Bill Crawford

56. “To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.”

— Bill Crawford

57. “Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.”

— Bill Crawford

58. “When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.”

— Bill Crawford

59. “Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.”

— Bill Crawford

60. “The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!”

— Bill Crawford

61. “Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.”

— Bill Crawford

62. “Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.”

— Bill Crawford

63. “Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.”

— Bill Crawford

64. “When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.”

— Bill Crawford

65. “Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.”

— Bill Crawford

66. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.”

— Bill Crawford

67. “People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.”

— Bill Crawford

68. “One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.”

— Bill Crawford

69. “When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.”

— Bill Crawford

70. “The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.”

— Bill Crawford

71. “The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.”

— Bill Crawford

72. “As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.”

— Bill Crawford

73. “In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.”

— Bill Crawford

74. “To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.”

— Bill Crawford

75. “Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.”

— Bill Crawford

76. “We’ve all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.”

— Bill Crawford

77. “Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.”

— Bill Crawford

78. “Everything that happens in our lives is “good information” about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive “good information” about this belief as well.”

— Bill Crawford

79. “The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.”

— Bill Crawford

80. “Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.”

— Bill Crawford

81. “Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.”

— Bill Crawford

82. “Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!”

— Bill Crawford

83. “Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.”

— Bill Crawford

84. “True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.”

— Bill Crawford

85. “Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.”

— Bill Crawford

86. “The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.”

— Bill Crawford

87. “Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.”

— Bill Crawford

88. “When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.”

— Bill Crawford

89. “The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.”

— Bill Crawford

90. “Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.”

— Bill Crawford

91. “You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.”

— Bill Crawford

92. “It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.”

— Bill Crawford

93. “Making changes isn’t about stopping the problem, it’s about starting the solution.”

— Bill Crawford