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!
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
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.
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!
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
3. Feelings & Emotions
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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.
4. Get Organized!
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.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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.
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 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 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.
5. Love & Relationships!
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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.
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.
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.
6. Thinking Bigger!
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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!
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.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
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.
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 can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
9. Work & Career!
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
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.
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.
