Inspirational Quotes For All: Be Inspired

Here are some stunningly profound inspirational quotes I stumbled upon over the last few months in my quest to underline certain ideas in my various posts and articles.  Enjoy and please... be inspired!

ACCEPTANCE (a well-known goodie)

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.  —Reinhold Niebuhr

AWARENESS

It's your state of consciousness in the present moment that determines what kind of world you create, because you are humanity. Humanity as an abstract doesn't exist; humanity is the 'human being'. —Eckhart Tolle

CHANGE

The great revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. —William James

Our only security is our ability to change.  —John Lilly

DESIRE

...Desire is the spark that ignites the flame of your soul and illuminates your innate creativity, imagination and vision. On this day, you will summon one of the most powerful agents of change in the universe—desire. In its purest form, your soul's desire is a magnet pulling you toward the life you want to live.

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past. Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them. —Debbie Ford

EVOLUTION

It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue. But not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter, and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good, and not his bad qualities.

And on the way to that supreme perfection, he will have found working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot give good for evil, evil for good.

Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self. —James Allen (As A Man Thinketh)

FAITH

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. —Georgette Mosbacher

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing. —Abraham Lincoln

FEAR

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot. —Eleanor Roosevelt

INTEGRITY

It is easy when you are part of a group to "go along to get along", but when you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness.

When you have developed a carefully thought out code of personal conduct, you will never have to ask anyone else what the appropriate course of action should be. You will intuitively know. —(Judith Rich)

LAW OF VIBRATION

You can never have a happy ending at the end of an unhappy journey; it just doesn't work out that way. The way you're feeling, along the way, is the way you're continuing to pre-pave your journey, and it's the way it's going to continue to turn out until you do something about the way you are feeling. —Abraham-Hicks

Men do not attract that which they want but that which they are. Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. —James Allen (As A Man Thinketh)

LIFE

Rather than arguing for limitations, the tiniest amongst us exemplify the natural imperative: to grow, to live with abandon, to relish, to rest, to begin anew, to show appreciation. —Dr Cara Barker (from What Newborns Have To Teach Us That Glenn Beck Has Forgotten)

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not to bother.  The greatest danger to our future is apathy.  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.  —Jane Goodall

LOVE

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. —Khalil Gibran

The greatest aphrodisiac is loving yourself and allowing yourself to be exactly who you are. Never alter yourself to fit someone else's mold! —Agapi Stassinopoulos

PROBLEMS

There’s the story of the man looking at all the problems of the world and asking God, "Why don’t you do something about the problems in the world?" And God replies, "I did – I created you." —From Brad Yates

RELIGION

God has no religion. —Mahatma Gandhi

"...the word religion comes from a Latin root, legare, which means "to connect." Re- is a prefix meaning "again." Simply put, a "religious experience" is one that reconnects you to something that you (a) were previously connected to, (b) still are connected to, (c) always were connected to, or (d) all of the above." —Russell Bishop

SOLITUDE

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

SPOKEN WORDS

When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow.  —William 'Biddy' Allen (1903-2001, Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children)

STILLNESS

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait – be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. —Kafka

WORK

Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them. —Napoleon Hill Foundation

The other fellow's mistakes are a weak alibi for your own. —Napoleon Hill

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. —Dale Carnegie