Check out our inspirational quotes below – under each area you’ll find 10 quotes from our quotes database to enjoy.
- Reclaim Your Balance & Vitality!
- Get More Confidence & Authenticity!
- Love Your Feelings & Emotions!
- Why Not Get Organized?
- Happier Love & Relationships
- Start Thinking Bigger!
- Seize Your Vision, Goals & Take Action!
- Grow Your Wisdom & Spirituality
- Boost Your Work & Career!
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1. Balance & Vitality!
There is no such thing as ‘Achieving Balance’ because if you do, it is only momentary. The important thing to know is whether you’re moving ‘towards’ or ‘away from’ Balance.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Too often we don’t trust our own deepest truth; it makes us feel too vulnerable or it seems incongruous with the person we think we are or must be.
3. Feelings & Emotions
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Too often we don’t trust our own deepest truth; it makes us feel too vulnerable or it seems incongruous with the person we think we are or must be.
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
Joy is the best makeup.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
4. Get Organized!
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
If there is anything that I could get you to do, it would be to spend ten to fifteen minutes each morning planning your day. If I could get you to do that, you’d not only scare yourself, you’d intimidate everybody on your block.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
5. Love & Relationships!
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
6. Thinking Bigger!
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it!
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
9. Work & Career!
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
