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!
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
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.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
3. Feelings & Emotions
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.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
4. Get Organized!
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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.
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.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
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!
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
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.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
6. Thinking Bigger!
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 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.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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…
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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.
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
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
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.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
9. Work & Career!
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 you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
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.
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 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.
