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!
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
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.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
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.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
3. Feelings & Emotions
Joy is the best makeup.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
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.
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
4. Get Organized!
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
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.
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.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
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.
5. Love & Relationships!
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.
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
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
6. Thinking Bigger!
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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…
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
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.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
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.
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.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
9. Work & Career!
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.
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
