Top 100 Inspirational Self Development Quotes
#1. Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly
Matthew Donnelly
#2. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.
Ilchi Lee
#3. Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way.
Staci Backauskas
#4. Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#5. We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.
Ilchi Lee
#6. Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.
Renae A. Sauter
#7. Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.
Ilchi Lee
#8. Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.
Ilchi Lee
#9. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.
Renae A. Sauter
#10. When you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.
Ilchi Lee
#11. If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.
Matthew Donnelly
#12. The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.
Ilchi Lee
#13. You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem
Renae A. Sauter
#14. We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#15. Breathing is the master key of life.
Ilchi Lee
#16. Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe.
Ilchi Lee
#17. Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#18. You are what you believe as expressed by what you do
Amine A. Ayad
#19. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
John Di Lemme
#20. When your breath is slow and deep, your mind calm, raise your hands and focus on your palms. You will feel the subtle energy that connects body and mind: LifeParticles.
Ilchi Lee
#21. I am now ready to let go of anyone or anything that prevents me from being me.
Renae A. Sauter
#22. We are all in different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you.
Renae A. Sauter
#23. Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#24. When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.
Ilchi Lee
#25. Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.
Ilchi Lee
#26. It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!
John Di Lemme
#27. Our environment, including the physical body, reflect our inner state - what we are inwardly, our eternal nature. When we renew our mind and transform ourselves, our environment responds to this change automatically.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#28. When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
John Di Lemme
#29. The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true
Renae A. Sauter
#30. Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.
Ilchi Lee
#31. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.
Ilchi Lee
#32. Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.
Ilchi Lee
#33. Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets.
Randy Gonzales
#34. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.
J. Loren Norris
#35. Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.
Ilchi Lee
#36. Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.
Ilchi Lee
#37. When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.
Auliq Ice
#38. You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.
Ilchi Lee
#39. Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.
Ilchi Lee
#40. When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#41. Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself.
Renae A. Sauter
#42. An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#43. I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.
Renae A. Sauter
#44. This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything
Renae A. Sauter
#45. There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
Ilchi Lee
#46. A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
J. Loren Norris
#47. Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.
Ilchi Lee
#48. We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, only our perception of the truth changes depending on how clearly we see and how much we understand.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#49. The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed.
Ilchi Lee
#50. Never let your Enemies become your Advocates." by A. K. Hasan
A.K. Hasan
#51. If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
T. Harv Eker
#52. We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.
Matthew Donnelly
#53. By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.
Ilchi Lee
#54. Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.
Tyler J. Hebert
#55. Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?
Ilchi Lee
#56. Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.
Ilchi Lee
#57. It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better
Renae A. Sauter
#58. Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything
Renae A. Sauter
#59. There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now
Renae A. Sauter
#60. A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.
"That's what makes a good leader.
Patience Johnson
#61. In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.
Julie Reisler
#62. Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you.
Miya Yamanouchi
#63. The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.
Ilchi Lee
#64. Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?
Ilchi Lee
#65. Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.
Ilchi Lee
#66. That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.
Renae A. Sauter
#67. While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.
Ilchi Lee
#68. When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#69. Your inner strength is your outer foundation
Allan Rufus
#70. When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#71. The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.
Ilchi Lee
#74. You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.
Ilchi Lee
#75. There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.
Julie Reisler
#76. Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.
Renae A. Sauter
#77. Before we ask the cosmos for the power to have all our thoughts manifest, we need to train ourselves to become more aware, or mindful, of our thoughts, and think wisely enough to use this power for the benefit of all.
Ilchi Lee
#78. The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#79. To recover the purest Zero mind, and cosmic consciousness, we first have to attain an earth consciousness.
Ilchi Lee
#80. If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.
Ilchi Lee
#81. The essence of enlightenment ... is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26
Ilchi Lee
#82. Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles; when you encounter that moment where every decision is a tough one and no choice seems to clearly be the better choice.
J. Loren Norris
#85. What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.
Ilchi Lee
#86. There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
Christopher Babson
#87. Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.
Ilchi Lee
#88. We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)
Ken Robinson
#89. We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.
Ilchi Lee
#90. The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.
Matthew Donnelly
#91. The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that.
Kristi Bowman
#93. By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.
Ilchi Lee
#94. Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#95. We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#96. People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they know that real power comes from surrender.
Renae A. Sauter
#97. Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.
Ilchi Lee
#98. I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.
Renae A. Sauter
#99. If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.
Ilchi Lee
#100. As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them.
Renae A. Sauter
