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Top 100 Meg Jay Quotes (2024 Update)

Meg Jay Quote: “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein, composer.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The future isn’t written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know or didn’t do. You are deciding your life right now.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Feeling better doesn’t come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time. These are the investments we make in ourselves, the things we do well enough, or long enough, that they become a part of who we are. Some.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The one thing I have learned is that you can’t think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do – something.”
Meg Jay Quote: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou.”
Meg Jay Quote: “We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later – but not making choices is a choice all the same.”
Meg Jay Quote: “What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families – they can create their own families – and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.”
Meg Jay Quote: “What I most notice about spending less time on social media is that I finally get to think my own thoughts.”
Meg Jay Quote: “What I tell my clients about “the cohabitation effect” is this: The effect that living together has on your partnership will likely depend not on whether you live together but how.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The frontal lobe is where we move beyond the futile search for black-and-white solutions as we learn to tolerate – and act on – shades of gray.”
Meg Jay Quote: “We become what we hear and see and do every day.”
Meg Jay Quote: “When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do. But it isn’t.”
Meg Jay Quote: “30 is not the new 20, so claim your adulthood, get some identity capital, use your weak ties, pick your family.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Real confidence comes from mastery experiences, which are actual, lived moments of success, especially when things seem difficult. Whether we are talking about love or work, the confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way.”
Meg Jay Quote: “As a twentysomething, life is still more about potential than proof. Those who can tell a good story about who they are and what they want leap over those who can’t.”
Meg Jay Quote: “I feel like I’m in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can’t see land on any side so I don’t know which way to go.”
Meg Jay Quote: “As we age, we feel less like leaves and more like trees. We have roots that ground us and sturdy trunks that may sway, but don’t break, in the wind.”
Meg Jay Quote: “It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically.”
Meg Jay Quote: “There is a certain terror that goes along with saying “My life is up to me.” It is scary to realize there’s no magic, you can’t just wait around, no one can really rescue you, and you have to do something.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations. Shoulds set up a false dichotomy between either meeting an ideal or being a failure, between perfection or settling. The tyranny of the should even pits us against our own best interests.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Researchers who have looked at how people resolve identity crises have found that lives that are all capital and no crisis – all work and no exploration – feel rigid and conventional.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Goals have been called the building blocks of adult personality, and it is worth considering that who you will be in your thirties and beyond is being built out of goals you are setting for yourself today.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Many twentysomethings assume life will come together quickly after thirty, and maybe it will. But it is still going to be a different life. We imagine that if nothing happens in our twenties then everything is still possible in our thirties. We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later – but not making choices is a choice all the same.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Knowing you want to do something isn’t the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn’t the same as actually doing it well.”
Meg Jay Quote: “For work success to lead to confidence, the job has to be challenging and it must require effort. It has to be done without too much help. And it cannot go well every single day. A long run of easy successes creates a sort of fragile confidence, the kind that is shattered when the first failure comes along. A more resilient confidence comes from succeeding – and from surviving some failures.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Marriage is one of our most defining moments because so much is wrapped up in it. If building a career is like spending twelve hours at the blackjack table – seeing the cards as you make your decisions, playing each hand with current winnings in mind, having a new opportunity to take a chance or play it safe with every card dealt – then choosing a mate is like walking over to the roulette wheel and putting all your chips on red 32.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Forward thinking doesn’t just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That’s why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.”
Meg Jay Quote: “One thing I have learned is that many, many people feel isolated with similar problems, unaware that they are not as alone or as different as they think.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Older spouses may be more mature, but later marriage has its own challenges. Rather than growing together while their twentysomething selves are still forming, partners who marry older may be more set in their ways. And a series of low-commitment, possibly destructive relationships can create bad habits and erode faith in love. And even though searching may help you find a better partner, the pool of available singles shallows over time, perhaps in more ways than one.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way.”
Meg Jay Quote: “But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The Big Five refers to five factors that describe how people interact with the world: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. Just.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Twentysomethings who use their brains by engaging with good jobs and real relationships are learning the language of adulthood just when their brains are primed to learn it. In the chapters ahead, we will see how they learn to calm themselves down at work and in love, and this brings mastery and success. They.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Unthought knowns are those things we know about ourselves but forget somehow. These are the dreams we have lost sight of or the truths we sense but don’t say out loud. We may be afraid of acknowledging the unthought known to other people because we are afraid of what they might think. Even more often, we fear what the unthought known will then mean for ourselves and our lives.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn’t matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn’t win the lottery.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The best time to work on your marriage is before you have one, so maybe the best time to talk about some of these issues is when they do not yet loom so large.”
Meg Jay Quote: “I wish I’d been more... I don’t know... intentional.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Sometimes dating or married couples decide to split because things change – someone cheated or had to move – but, more often, people split up because things don’t change. It is far more common to hear couples say that, in retrospect, the differences were there all along.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Interviewers want to hear a reasonable story about the past, present, and future.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Twenty somethings who aren’t at least a little scared about their relationships are often the ones who are being the least thoughtful.”
Meg Jay Quote: “While most would agree with Socrates that, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: “The unlived life is not worth examining.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Present bias is prioritizing the rewards and consequences of the here-and-now over the rewards and consequences of the there-and-then.”
Meg Jay Quote: “The Ben Franklin effect shows that, while attitudes influence behavior, behavior can also shape attitudes. If we do a favor for someone, we come to believe we like that person. This liking leads back to another favor, and so on. A close variant of what is called the foot-in-the-door technique, or the strategy of making small requests before larger ones, the Ben Franklin effect tells us that one favor begets more favors and, over time, small favors beget larger ones.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Real confidence comes from mastery experiences, which are actual, lived moments of success, especially when things seem difficult.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Society is structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness in order to focus attention on the decisions that have a marginal impact on happiness.”
Meg Jay Quote: “Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do.”
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