Lead With Your Heart Quotes

“Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“There are 1,440 minutes in each day. Each minute is dear. Once it is spent, there is no way to receive a refund. We cannot purchase more. We cannot press pause on life to resume it at a more convenient time. Time is not a resource to be wasted, killed, or allowed to fly away from us without our being aware of where it went.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Going against what we recognize is true for us results in regret, disappointment, and suffering. One reason for our existence is to contribute something unique that only we can. Making our positive contribution becomes possible by loving ourselves first, through the action of remaining true to ourselves. Have you ever stopped to consider how special”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“The truth is that love does not hurt. Love does not abuse. Love does not take advantage. Love is not impatient. Love is not critical. Love is not controlling. Love is not angry.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“We cannot control the behavior of or change anyone except ourselves. One of the hard truths about life is that, for our own contentment and peace, we must remember people change for the better only when they really want to.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“How much precious time do you and I waste wanting other people or situations to be different from how they are? To lead with our heart, we must honestly look at how unreasonable it is to suffer under the false impression we have the power to control or change other people or the negative, frustrating, inconvenient, or heartbreaking situations we encounter in life.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Keep moving forward in faith, and patiently watch for the opening of a new door. Then courageously walk through. Have faith that the optimistic energy you put out will come back to you. The longer you stay in any negative situation, whether it is a bad job or an abusive relationship, the more you break your heart. Nothing is worth that.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Faith inspires us to accept those situations we cannot change. And in the situations where we do have control, self-confidence supports our actively creating change.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“You and I cannot control or change anyone else but ourselves. How other people choose to behave is a reflection on them. People may be rude, insulting, condescending, or deceitful, and yet their behavior is a reflection of who they are. How we behave in response is a reflection of who we are. The important thing to remember is that our behavior demonstrates, to us and to others, our level of self-discipline, which reveals how much we love and respect ourselves (or not).”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“To lead with my heart, I must take accountability for my actions. Turning the eye of evaluation in my own direction, I realized that being an ass is a choice, not a condition. So creating my behavior with positive purpose had each time been my choice, too. I realized that everything I do is a choice.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“If you are currently in an abusive situation, you must set a boundary with people who hurt you. Choose to respect yourself and walk away, if necessary. No matter how your heart might long for the other person to know better, he or she will not have a clue about their negative behavior until they choose to look at themselves with the honesty of their own heart.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Communication defines us to ourselves and to the world. How we communicate sets the stage for the relationships we have.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Regardless of how badly we may want the future to come, we cannot rush ahead and live in a time that does not yet exist. The future is not real; it is only the next moment's present, over and over, infinitely.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“One of the greatest aha moments possible is realizing our mind has a mind of its own. Our mind tells us what we want to hear. Our heart tells us what we need to hear.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Our mind thinks, and with our heart's wisdom we have the awareness to question those thoughts.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Jealous thoughts create jealous behavior. Kind thoughts create kind behavior. Revengeful thoughts create revengeful behavior. Peaceful thoughts create peaceful behavior. Our thoughts create our behavior. Our behavior creates our life. It then makes sense that to create our best life, we must stay connected to what we are thinking, and why, so we can change jealously to kindness, revenge to peace.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Do you realize why superheroes are called action heroes? Because there is no such thing as a hope hero! Each success we achieve in life is the result of our being emotionally invested in the outcome, to the point that we make ourselves take the consistent actions necessary to create what we want.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“I had to be self-sufficient, contented, and balanced before I could attract someone who had the same qualities. This was a key breakthrough: whatever you want in a relationship has to first be in you.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“If we are going to create lives of love, compassion, and purpose, we have the charge to question what we believe. It is only by asking questions of ourselves and the world that we can improve from generation to generation.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Patient people like to be around calm people. Compassionate people seek out those with big hearts. Honest people like truthful people. Selfdisciplined people relate to other people who share their level of self-control.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Crossing your heart is promising to keep your word. When you are facing life's challenges, you have to have heart in order to remain aligned with the self-confidence and determination necessary to pick yourself up and carry on.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Treat other people as you want to be treated. And remember, that does not mean waiting for them to do it first.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“responsible, we are not emotionally equipped to support these values in those we care about. Saying “I love you” is easy. “I love you” means someone is important to us. We would miss them if they were”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“I too was brainwashed into believing I was not good enough unless I lived up to other people's ideals and values.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Living a fulfilled life requires us to patiently surrender to the truth: Life is only real now.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Only in the present is it possible to apply what we learned from the past and create a better outcome for the moment that is now.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Another wonderful realization was that life is now. It is not possible to go back in time and undo the past.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

“Self-love, respect, and inner peace come from learning how to travel through life in the easiest and most fulfilling manner. Finding the path of least resistance requires accepting it is your actions that create your life.”
― Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose