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!
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
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 key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
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.
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.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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.
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.
3. Feelings & Emotions
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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.
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.
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.
The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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.
Joy is the best makeup.
4. Get Organized!
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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.
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.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
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.
5. Love & Relationships!
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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 must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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 quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
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.
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.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
6. Thinking Bigger!
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.
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 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.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
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.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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…
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
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!
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
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.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
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.
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.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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 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.
9. Work & Career!
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
