Check out our inspirational quotes below – under each area you’ll find 10 quotes from our quotes database to enjoy.

  1. Reclaim Your Balance & Vitality!
  2. Get More Confidence & Authenticity!
  3. Love Your Feelings & Emotions!
  4. Why Not Get Organized?
  5. Happier Love & Relationships
  6. Start Thinking Bigger!
  7. Seize Your Vision, Goals & Take Action!
  8. Grow Your Wisdom & Spirituality
  9. Boost Your Work & Career!
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1. Balance & Vitality!

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

— Chinese Proverb

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.

— Bob Dylan

Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

— Chinese Proverb

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

— Francis Bacon

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

— Thomas Merton

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

— Proverb (unknown)

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.

— Marsha Doble

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.

— Terri Guillemets

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

— Jim Rohn

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.

— Betsy Jacobson

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2. Confidence & Authenticity!

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

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.

— Alan Keightley

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.

— Emily Hanlon

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— Max Lucado

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

— Dr. Seuss

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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.

— Dr. Seuss

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

— Ambrose Redmoon

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

— Wayne Dyer

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

— Joseph F. Newton

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

— Mother Teresa

The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’

— Oprah Winfrey

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

— Josiah G. Holland

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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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.

— Charles E. Hummel

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.

— Betsy Jacobson

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.

— Wajdi Mouawad

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.

— Og Mandino

The successful man is the average man, focused.

— Source Unknown

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

— Dawson Trotman

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.

— Hyrum W. Smith

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

— David Norris

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

— Charles Buxton

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5. Love & Relationships!

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

— Lao Tzu

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

— Paul Boese

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

— Mother Teresa

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

— Saint Francis de Sales

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

— Joseph F. Newton

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.

— Oprah Winfrey

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.

— Rumi

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

— Dr. Seuss

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

— Nicholas de Chamfort

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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.

— Barack Obama

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— Max Lucado

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

— John le Carre

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.

— E.B. White

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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…

— Unknown

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

— E.B. White

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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.

— Deepak Chopra

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.

— E.B. White

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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.

— Og Mandino

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!

— Michelangelo

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

— Steve Brown

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

— R. Allen

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare

— Japanese Proverb

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.

— Helen Keller

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.

— Wajdi Mouawad

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

— Francis Bacon

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.

— Henry Ford

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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.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

— Naguib Mahfouz

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— Max Lucado

Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

— Chinese Proverb

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

— E.B. White

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

— Elbert Hubbard

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

— Buddha

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

— St. Francis de Sales

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

— Mother Teresa

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9. Work & Career!

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

— Steve Brown

(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

— Gloria Steinem

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.

— Robert J. Herbold

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

— Elbert Hubbard

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.

— Wajdi Mouawad

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.

— Bob Dylan

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.

— Henry Ford

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

— Proverb (unknown)

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.

— Harold Thurman Whitman

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.

— John Foster Dulles

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