Inspirational & Instructional Quotes
Hi, my name is Ben Balden. My life’s mission is to help everyone live a happier, fuller life. My intention for creating this information here is to realize my vision of a world full of happy and successful people at peace with themselves and in harmony with others. I warmly invite you to join me in this passionate cause: to help all people everywhere live a happier, fuller life. Let’s start with ourselves.
Here is a collection of all of the inspirational and instructional quotes I have shared.
- QUOTE: “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”~Epictetus
- QUOTE – “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” — Tara Brach
- QUOTE – “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Anonymous
- QUOTE – “All truly toxic thoughts are expelled while moving. Gotta move to stay alive.” — Toni Sorenson
- QUOTE – “Always pass on what you have learned.” — Yoda, Star Wars
- QUOTE – “Don’t try to beat the system. Find out how it works and work it.” — Jim Rohn
- QUOTE – “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. There are such rough moments… that most people give up.” — Steve Jobs
- QUOTE – “You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.” — Marcus Aurelius
- QUOTE – “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” — Jim Rohn
- QUOTE – “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah Winfrey
- QUOTE – “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
- QUOTE – “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
- QUOTE – “To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” — James Allen
- QUOTE – “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy
- QUOTE – “Be yourself because everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
- QUOTE – “You cannot feed the poor from empty shelves.” — Anonymous
- QUOTE – “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” — Marcus Aurelius
- QUOTE – “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King
- QUOTE – “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.” — Helen Keller
- QUOTE – “Change the way you see the world and change the world you see” — Ben Balden
- “more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do”
- No one’s coming
- “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.” – Steve Jobs, Apple CEO & cofounder
- “This, too, shall pass!” – anonymous
- “The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they’re also just as easy not to do.” – Jim Rohn
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
- “Daring greatly is being brave and afraid every minute of the day at the exact same time.” – Brene Brown
- “Don’t aim at success” ― Viktor E. Frankl 🎧
- How you experience life …
- “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
- Be a conduit of light
- It is not what happens to me that defines me, it is how I respond.
- Where is your emotional home?
- Be Less Critical. Live and Let Live.
- God’s Delays are NOT God’s Denials––Tony Robbins
- “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa 🎧
- “Be who you are right now so you can begin to work on who you want to become”
- “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” -Vince Lombardi
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”–Walt Disney
- “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The opposite of success is not failure; it’s mediocrity. Failure is actually part of the process of success.” – Randy Gage
- “When you can’t hire and fire people, you’re forced to learn to inspire, lead, and partner for a common goal.” – Randy Gage
- “Where your focus goes, your energy flows” – various
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
- You’re Part of a Symphony
- “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”― Oprah Winfrey 🎧
- “Initiate like your life depends on it. Because the truth is that your initiative is the only thing your life is depending on.”
- “Be a Quitter”
- “Execution trumps knowledge every day of the week” – Tony Robbins
- Simple ≠ Easy; Busy ≠ Progress; and Money ≠ Love
- “It doesn’t matter what happens to you in life. It matters how you respond.” – Ben Balden
- “the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage” – Dale Carnegie
- “Imagine it as clear as you can…” — Hugh Jackman 🎥
- “Success isn’t the absence of failure, but going from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm.” – Various
- “We need to remember to be true to who we are…” – Steve Jobs
- “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” — Joseph Campbell
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
- “If you can learn to be happy and grateful for what you have, it will be a lot easier to get what you dream of.” – Ben Balden
- “Looking good to others is not important to me. Being good is.” – Ben Balden
- “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” — William Shakespeare
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”– Walt Whitman
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
- “The greatest teacher, failure is.”–Master Yoda (Star Wars)
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” — Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” –– Stephen R. Covey
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” –– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 🎥
- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” –– Albert Einstein 🎥
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –– Confucius 🎥
- “One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.” – Steve Jobs 🎥
And below here are all the graphics for those quotes…