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.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
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.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
3. Feelings & Emotions
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.
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.
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.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Joy is the best makeup.
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.
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.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
4. Get Organized!
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make 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.
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.
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.
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.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
5. Love & Relationships!
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’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.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
6. Thinking Bigger!
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
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.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
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 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.
9. Work & Career!
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
