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.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
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.
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.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
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.
Joy is the best makeup.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
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.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
5. Love & Relationships!
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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.
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.
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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.
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.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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.
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.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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!
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.
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.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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 heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
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.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
9. Work & Career!
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
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.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
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.
(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.
