Top 50 Gary John Bishop Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.”

— Gary John Bishop

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2. “You have the life you’re willing to put up with.”

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3. “Life won’t stop for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusion or fear. It will continue right along without you. Whether you play an active part or not, the show will go on.”

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4. “I expect nothing and accept everything.”

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5. “You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing.”

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6. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

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7. “Love the life you have, not the one you expected to have.”

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8. “Our biggest successes are born out of discomfort, uncertainty, and risk.”

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9. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung.”

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10. “Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Either you control your destiny, or your destiny will control you. Life won’t pause for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusions and fear. It will continue right along without you.”

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11. “Remember you can always change something when you can take ownership and responsibility for it.”

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12. “Uncertainty is where things happen. Uncertainty is your personal pathway to opportunity. It’s the environment in which you grow, experience new things and produce new, unprecedented results. Uncertainty is where new happens.”

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13. “That’s your personal assertion: “I embrace the uncertainty.” Meet it head on. Cherish it. Enjoy it.”

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14. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl.”

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15. “A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.”

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16. “The impossible only becomes possible in the moment you believe it is.”

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17. “In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.”

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18. “We are wired to win – we just have to point ourselves in the right direction so we can win at something we consciously choose.”

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19. “Relentlessness doesn’t mean charging into the fray headfirst, swinging and flailing your arms every which way. It’s focused, determined action. Again and again and again.”

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20. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius.”

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21. “There aren’t any roadsigns when you’re trekking through uncharted territory. It’s all discovery and exploration.”

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22. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt.”

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23. “When you think about it, that’s basically what most of us do. We want to be driven. We think a more productive mood will chauffeur us through life, a confident mood will make things easier or more doable. But if you want to get to where you’re going, you’ll have to take the wheel.”

— Gary John Bishop

24. “We often view ourselves as procrastinators or lazy or unmotivated. When in reality, we’re simply unwilling. We put things off or avoid them completely because we tell ourselves we just don’t want to do it or that we can’t do it.”

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25. “There is no greater knowledge than the knowledge you have verified for yourself, in your own experience.”

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26. “You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think.”

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27. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus.”

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28. “Go ahead, say it, embrace it: “I embrace the uncertainty.”

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29. “It’s not the sucky life you seemingly have but your dialogue about your life that has you by the throat, and the vast majority of that dialogue is blissfully unnoticed and therefore unexplored by you. It’s running in the background.”

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30. “The gap between how life is and how we think life is, is often the black hole in which we fruitlessly labor.”

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31. “Most of the time, the task we’re actually facing is a lot simpler than we think it is. The problem is, we usually don’t take the time to really look at it.”

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32. “You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing. In fact, when you become closely associated with the actions you are taking, something magical starts to become apparent. Thoughts without actions are just that, thoughts, and your negative thoughts about yourself, others, or your circumstances will have no impact on your success as long as you leave them where they lie.”

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33. “Here’s the deal: true relentlessness comes when the only thing you have left is relentlessness. When it seems all is lost and all hope and evidence for success have long since vanished, relentlessness is the fuel that drives you through.”

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34. “Our minds would love to predict and plan for everything that’s going to happen. But it’s simply not possible. And these expectations not only have a negative effect on our emotional state, they actually leave us less powerful than we really could be.”

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35. “Remember, everything is solve-able, and if you can’t see a solution, it only means you haven’t worked it out yet.”

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36. “Sometimes our mind is like the equivalent of a funhouse mirror, distorting and contorting and blurring our lives and our potential.”

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37. “If you took the time to be with what I’m saying, you’d realize that what causes most of your worry is trying to predict the future and then refusing to accept things when they don’t or aren’t going to go your way.”

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38. “When you are free to be open and available, with nothing held back, no lies, no withholds or half-truths, you really are your most expressive, most alive self.”

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39. “When the responsibility for the quality of your life lies with anyone but you, you become the victim.”

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40. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle.”

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41. “The next time you’re feeling or experiencing any sort of negative or diminishing thought that disempowers you, move on immediately. Act independently of that thought. More specifically, act in a way that’s in your best interests rather than in a way that is dominated by how you automatically think and feel.”

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42. “You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think. In fact, you could change your life overnight if you simply abandoned the notion that other people’s opinions matter.”

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43. “People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period.”

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44. “Not all mountaineers make the summit; sometimes they turn back, retool, keep coming at it. They’re just never satisfied with standing at the bottom, hanging out with all the other nonclimbers and explaining their lack of ascent. No, they packed up their tent and moved forward, and they will pass from this world knowing they gave every ounce of their effort. That they played full out. They loved the climb.”

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45. “There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day.”

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46. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

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47. “There’s nothing quite so damaging as the human desire to be right.”

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48. “We are all building things only to burn them right back down. And we’re tired of it.”

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49. “Your past dominates your potential. You don’t live a life of “anything is possible”; you live a life of “some things are possible, given my past.”

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50. “One of the first mistakes we make is when we talk about what we are going to do or who we will be. Don’t even get me started on “should,” or “try!”

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