25 Favorite Inspirational and Motivational Quotes
Published on 5 Sep 2007 at 7:54 pm.
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1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming — Whoo Hoo — What a Ride! - Attributed to Bill McKenna, Anonymous and in a Nissan ad.
2. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. -Anonymous
3. Self-knowledge is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. -Karen Horney
4. Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits. –Nancy Long
5. To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease. -Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”
6. There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world and that is an idea whose time has come. -Voltaire
7. Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. -Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You
8. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -Helen Keller
9. Once I decide to do something, I can’t have people telling me I can’t. If there’s a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, or crawl under it. –Kitty Kelley
10. Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. –Sir Cecil Beaton
11. Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. -Vaclav Havel
12. Some pursue happiness, others create it. -Anonymous
13. There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind. -Brian Tracy
14. If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. –Brendan Francis
15. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -Martha Washington
16. The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. -Jim Rohn
17. Climbing is not about conquering the rock; it is about
conquering yourself. - Jim Collins, Author, “Good to Great”
18. To understand the magical nature of the mind is to acquire awesome power. It is to understand that at every moment of our lives, we have the power to accomplish everything we want. -Deepak Chopra
19. Courage means flying in the face of criticism, relying on yourself, being willing to accept and learn from the consequences of all your choices. It means believing enough in yourself and in living your life as you choose so that you cut the strings whose ends other people hold and use to pull you in contrary directions. -Wayne Dyer
20. Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch you actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. -Frank Outlaw
21. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. When we come to the edge of all the light we have
And must take a step into the darkness of the unknown
We must believe one of two things
Either we will find something firm to stand on
Or, we will be taught to fly.
-Richard Bach, Jonathon Livingston Seagull
23. If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and
endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours. -Henry David Thoreau
24. Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. -Marilyn Grey
25. …Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of the Universe. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others… -From A RETURN TO LOVE by Marianne Williamson
Erin on 5 Sep 2007 at 8:19 pm: 1
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lorraine on 5 Sep 2007 at 9:00 pm: 2
Count me in Erin,
Thanks for the invite. I love a good juicy question. I’ll be back!
Eric Roth on 13 Sep 2007 at 8:26 am: 3
Great quotes!
lorraine on 13 Sep 2007 at 9:14 am: 4
Thanks for stopping by Eric!
I had more quotes and I figured I should stop and save some for a future post. People say such great things!
Cheers!