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.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
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.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
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.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
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.
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.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
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.
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 successful man is the average man, focused.
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.
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.
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.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
5. Love & Relationships!
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
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.
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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 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’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.
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.
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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.
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
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…
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
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!
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
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.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
