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Foreword
This book is the result of many hours of research. Thousands of quotes were evaluated based on their relevance to the title, their ability to inspire, and for the accuracy of their citations. Unfortunately, curating quotes is an imprecise science. Great words are often borrowed. In some cases, multiple attributions can be found. In other cases, no attribution can be given. There are also many quotes that reflect similar sentiments worded differently. In the end, it is the burden of the editor to determine which quotes are used and who receives credit. Any and all content decisions made in editing these quotes have been in service of the deeper purpose of this book; to provide inspiration, hope, and perspective to the reader. -Darren Weaver, Contributing Editor
ords are powerful, and no words have more power than inspirational quotes. They have the ability to awaken your heart, empower, motivate, and instill wisdom. When incorporated deeply into your being, a personally meaningful quote can profoundly affect the course of your life. After all, the thoughts you focus on create your life experience. This book is a compilation of wisdom designed to shift your perspective on three of the most important aspects of your life experience; your purpose, (Life), your emotions, (Love), and your relationship to self and others, (Leadership). Life. The journey of life can be a harrowing adventure, oscillating between extremes of joy and sorrow, serenity and hardship. Without the illuminating insight of others, it's easy to be limited by our own perspective. When we widen our perspective through the wisdom of others, our reality expands proportionately. Love. The human experience is largely a story about love. Love produces our strongest desire, our peak experience, and our deepest loss. Love gives our life meaning. Through the aperture of love, we feel our own emotions amplified. Only then can we glimpse life in its full beauty. Only then can we claim to have lived. Leadership. Self-leadership is self-mastery. This is an essential skill for living a balanced, autonomous life. It is the key to living in accordance with our ethics, embodying integrity, and pushing ourselves toward personal excellence. Enlightened leadership of others elicits the inherent greatness already present in those around us, to achieve the objectives of the group. The sum of the parts then become greater than the whole. Both prosper and neither are left unimproved. This book is composed of three sections, each taken directly from the first pages of three insightful volumes on the same subjects:
Inspirational Quotes About Life
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
Leadership: Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
hy should we seek inspirational quotes about life? The experience of living can be a harrowing adventure, oscillating between extremes of joy and sorrow, serenity and hardship. It's easy to feel adrift and uncertain. Why are we here and what is our purpose? What is the meaning of it all? Unfortunately, when we ask these questions of ourselves, life itself is distorted through the lens of our own limited perspective. The good news is that we can widen our perspective by learning from the insights of others. We have an inheritance of simple, accessible wisdom, left to us by some of the greatest thinkers from the past to the present day. Presented in this book, their inspirational quotes about life are the summation of many lifetimes of experience. They provide wisdom, and remind us that our lives are magical masterpieces of our own creation. Let their revelations illuminate your own life path. Words are powerful! When you discover a profoundly beautiful or particularly insightful sentiment, it has the ability to nurture your higher self, or even change your life. We are certain that this thoughtfully curated collection will lend you inspiration, and offer deep insight. It promises perspective, optimism, and a few reasons to smile.
Inspirational Quotes About Life
Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile. —Mark Twain Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. —Robert Brault Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever. —Tim Lebbon
Inspirational Quotes About Life
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. —Ashley Smith Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup. —John Updike The more you smile in life, the more life smiles on you. —Mark Amend
Inspirational Quotes About Life
Life isn't measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away. —Author unknown We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark, signifies it! —Gary Ryan Blair If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! —T. Harv Eker
Inspirational Quotes About Life
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. —Ralph Waldo Emerson In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. —Kristian Kan Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything but happy. —Author unknown
Inspirational Quotes About Life
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. —Rainer Maria Rilke Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. —Søren Kierkegaard A loving heart is the truest wisdom. —Charles Dickens
Inspirational Quotes About Life
Life is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. —Dean Koontz Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. —Randall Munroe There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein
ove! More songs, poems, and novels have been written about it than any other subject. Human culture is largely a story about love. Yet despite the obsessive quality of our heart's desire, so few of us are able to articulate how love makes us feel, particularly to someone we love! This book contains within it two gifts: It is a significant collection of sublime sentiments on the subject of love. Both the elusive quality of love in the abstract, and the sweet words of one lover to another are contained within. Read these quotes to yourself to unlock what love means to you, or share them with someone you love to help you express feelings that don't come easily in your own words. After all, 'I love you' can never be explained in too many ways or too often! No words are sweeter to the ear. It also offers enlightened ideals to which your love can aspire. The wisdom of enduring love is portrayed through examples of tenderness, patience, selfless action, and care. Let these be a compass and guide in your own loving relationships.
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. —Stephanie Perkins Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. —Robert Sexton There’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. —Gretchen Kemp
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. —Rumi How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. —Victor Hugo I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride. I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. —Pablo Neruda
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. —Rabindranath Tagore Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. —Author unknown Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful. —Milan Kundera
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. —Zora Neale Hurston Our souls were split in two in heaven in order that we should find each other in this world and become whole. —Rabbi Avroham Czapnik Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. —Kay Knudsen
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are. We can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. —Richard Bach As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once. —John Green He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. —Leo Tolstoy
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
I want you for always…days, years, eternities. —Franz Schubert True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations. It is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. —Honore de Balzac When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. —William Shakespeare
Love Quotes for Inspired Relationships
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colors seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life. —Bob Marley When someone follows you all the way to the store and watches you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed. —Jennifer Aniston
ords are powerful! They have the ability to touch the soul, change our lives, even change the world around us. Congratulations on discovering this book. It is a treasure of insight on the subject of leadership, but there is more than one way to access its wealth. Many of these quotes have been derived through a lifetime of experience and you may consider reading and contemplating only one at a time in order to appreciate their greater meaning. You may choose to read one first thing in the morning over coffee, then remain watchful for its relevance throughout your day, seeing how its wisdom can be applied in your own life. In this way, you will learn the profound truth contained in every quote through the lens of your personal experience. You may also prefer to read through the entire book, perhaps seeking guidance on a specific challenge you are currently facing. As you do this, you will begin to hear a single voice that rises from the chorus of disparate personalities presented in this book. Many sentiments, though nuanced through the unique perspective and experiences of different people, convey common wisdom shared by all. These are the universal truths of leadership. I invite you to consider how your life might evolve and how you might affect the lives of those around you by implementing these teachings on a personal level. Only by extending the lessons of this book beyond your workplace or organization into your home, relationships, and community will you discover that to become an enlightened leader is to be an enlightened person.
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. —Martin Luther King, Jr. Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do. That is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written. It is written by leaders. —Mark Miller Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens, people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. —Warren G. Bennis
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What you cannot enforce, do not command. —Sophocles The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. —William Arthur Ward
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. —Robert Louis Stevenson The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. —Ray Kroc The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart. —Eleanor Roosevelt Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. —Mwai Kibaki
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection too. —David J. Schwartz If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self will honor, respect, and lasting success be found. —Stevenson Willis Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese proverb
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams Weigh whatever you are about to say. What will it do to your hearer; encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life; glorify, edify, beautify, or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well. —Jaachynma N.E. Agu People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible. —Robert Watson
Leadership - Inspirational Quotes to Create a Wise Leader
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program. It is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine. —Lance Secretan Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. —Mark Twain Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Acknowledgements
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