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.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
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.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
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.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
3. Feelings & Emotions
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That’s why when you allow yourself to become anaesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live.
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.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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.
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.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
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.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
5. Love & Relationships!
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
6. Thinking Bigger!
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
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.
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!
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
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.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
9. Work & Career!
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
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.
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.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
