Parker Palmer Quotes

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

I have to stay true to myself.