What is your favourite inspirational quotation for public speaking?
We search for everything we believe we don’t have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. – Miguel Ruiz
This is mine. What’s yours?
Follow Vince Stevenson
Imagine what you could achieve if you knew that there was no failure?
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. – Herman Melville – Melville was illiterate… Not bad considering…
All that we are arises from our thoughts… The Budha
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – The Dalai Lama
Teach only love for that is what you are. – A Course In Miracles
Reading Inspirational and Motivational Quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.
– Rosie Cash
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis
If it is to be, it is up to me.
(William H Johnsen)
In the battle between the rock and the river, the river always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence. Regards Bob
Our biggest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marian Williamson
School days are the best days of your life.
It takes a village to bring up a young man.
You are not who you think you are AND you are so much more. Jamie Smart
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. – Amrit Desai
The love of one’s country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border? – Pablo Casals
Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child. – Giten
Love transforms my life now. I specifically expect and give thanks for lavish abundance today. – Catherine Ponder
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. – Wayne Dyer
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
There is only ever this moment. The present is all there is. The future and past are thought generated illusions. Illusions you only ever experience in the present. Jamie Smart
It’s unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer, what we need is to take action. @dalailama http://www.dalailama.com/
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true. It’s that simple. – Byron Katie
Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. – Nisaraga Ha Maharaj
Meditation is the gateway, through which you arrive to the world of freedom. – Remez Sasson
“No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.” – Lao Tzu
“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” Bruce Lee
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.” Chuang Tzu
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. – Eckhart Tolle
First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. – Osho
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim – loving all these inspiration quotes… Ted
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places nobody has eve been. Einstein
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. – William Ewart Gladstone
To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. – Peggy Jenkins
The total number of minds in the universe is One. – Erwin Schrodinger
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you can’t explain it to a six year old. You don’t understand it yourself. Einstein
It’s during our darkest moments that we must focus and see the light…
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” Michael Jordan
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” Lao Tzu
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch
Imagination is more important than knowlegde ~ Albert Einstein
Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell. Bill Copeland
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. Maya Angelou
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself. Robert Frost
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. Paulo Coelho
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now.
Anonymous
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Romana L. Anderson
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less, when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? Seth Godin
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. Chinese proverb
Loneliness is cured by contact with reality – Anthony de Mello
Life is what happens to us when we’re busy doing something else. Anthony de Mello
“Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”
― Anthony de Mello
“The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet’s greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.”
― Anthony de Mello
“The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every
doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these
things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now
being taken as descriptions.
He loved to quote the Eastern saying “When the sage points
to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.”
― Anthony de Mello
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone else’s. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.” ― Anthony de Mello
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.” ― Anthony de Mello
“You are so proud of your intelligence,” said the master. “You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.” Anthony de Mello
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place. Isaac Babel
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. Irving Babbitt
Don’t teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and irritates the pig. Anthony de Mello
“Remember nobody wins unless everybody wins.” – Bruce Springsteen
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – The Dalai Lama
Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. – Greek saying
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides. – George Sand
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. – Henry David Thoreau
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forester
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.- Somerset Maugham