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!
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
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.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
3. Feelings & Emotions
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
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’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
4. Get Organized!
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
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.
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.
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.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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
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.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
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.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
6. Thinking Bigger!
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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…
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.
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.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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!
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.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a 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.
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
