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!
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.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
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.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
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.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
3. Feelings & Emotions
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.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
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.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
4. Get Organized!
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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.
5. Love & Relationships!
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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.
If you make a choice that doesn’t please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart – the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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.
6. Thinking Bigger!
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
A Short History of Medicine:
2000 B.C. – “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C. – “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1850 A.D. – “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”
1940 A.D. – “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
1985 A.D. – “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”
2000 A.D. – “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.”
Everything moves in cycles…
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
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!
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Sometimes being kind means being tough with ourselves. Sometimes it means saying ‘No’ to ourselves or to others. And sometimes it means saying ‘Yes’ to difficult decisions and actions. Look within – the answers to what is truly kind to yourself are always to be found in pausing, a deep breath and a connection with our deepest selves.
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.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
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.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
9. Work & Career!
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
