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!
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
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.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
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.
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.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
3. Feelings & Emotions
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.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Joy is the best makeup.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
4. Get Organized!
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
5. Love & Relationships!
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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.
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
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
6. Thinking Bigger!
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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.
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
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.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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!
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
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.
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.
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.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
9. Work & Career!
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 you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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 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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
