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.
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.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
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.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
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
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
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.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
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.
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.
5. Love & Relationships!
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.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
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.
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.
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.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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.
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.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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…
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
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.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
9. Work & Career!
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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.
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.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
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.