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.
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.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
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.
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.
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.
2. Confidence & 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.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
3. Feelings & Emotions
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Guilt is defined as internalized anger over perceived and unwanted obligations.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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’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.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
4. Get Organized!
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
5. Love & Relationships!
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.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
6. Thinking Bigger!
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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…
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
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 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.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
9. Work & Career!
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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 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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
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.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
