Inspiration
9 SIMPLE WAYS ANYONE CAN BE A BETTER SERVANT LEADER
Servant leadership can take place just about anywhere. For example, after a long week at work and a late night serving curry and clearing tables at a BBQ we had hosted for our students, it was 9:30am on a Saturday morning. I was at the airport collecting some colleagues (that I’d never met before) who had flown into town from another campus for an event that they needed a lift to, 214 km away, off-road.
“Your taxi is here!” I happily chirped as I loaded their suitcases into the back of the car. They thanked me graciously and we talked for the next 3+ hours as we bumped and jiggled along one of the most beautiful typically-deep-red Australian outback tracks to a remote Aboriginal community.
As we rocked up to their destination, one asked “so what did you do to deserve having to be the driver for trip like this? What’s your role?”.
“Oh I didn’t have to” I answered; “I’m the Head”.
After overcoming the initial mortification at having not recognised me in my casual ‘Saturday rig’, my guests became incredulous. “But you’re the most senior role here; why didn’t you send a driver?”
“Well because I can drive, and it’s an honour to be able to serve you”.
Great leadership is about service.
Now of course, you don’t have to give your colleagues a 428km round offroad trip to be a great servant leader, nor does giving somebody a lift constitute as great leadership service. There are many ways to serve others as a leader, and that paradoxically elevate us further as a leader in doing it.
In this article I will share with you some ideas of what servant leadership is, some servant leadership theory and servant leadership examples.
Traditionally, the stereotypical concept of a leader has been of an authoritarian figure. One who stands ‘up front’ and ‘on top’ (autocratic leadership), calling the shots, giving the orders and telling people where to go, what to do and how to do it.
In this traditional leadership style, ‘The Boss’ is someone who gives the whole team one thing in common – being that somebody that they can all hate.
The autocratic method of leadership ensures that leaders get hated for the decisions they make, the tasks they delegate and hated just simply because they are the boss.
But it doesn’t have to be like this.
It is actually very hard to hate a person. It is their behaviour, how they make us feel or what they represent that we actually hate.
But as a leader, that puts us in a constantly conflicting position – because we have to provide direction, we have to assure organisational outcomes, monitor performance, keep accountability and deliver information that people may not want to hear – all of which involve the potential pitfall of making people feel like they are being told what to do, managed, controlled and monitored. Not exactly the ingredients for getting onto people’s Christmas card lists.
As a result, many leaders find themselves facing a crisis, in a position of either doing our job (and making our people hate us) OR, keeping everyone happy and failing our organisation by avoiding being seen as ‘bossy’. It this what leadership comes down to?!
No.
There is another way.
A way that allows us to actualise the mission of our organisations, to meet and even exceed our objectives. A way that allows us to do this in a way that empowers our people AND that engenders the greatest level of mutual understanding and collegiality between us and our team.
It’s called ‘Servant Leadership’.
“servant leaders have a particular view of themselves as stewards who are entrusted to develop and empower followers to reach their fullest potential” (Sendjaya)
What is Servant Leadership?
Servant leadership, coined by Robert Greenleaf in the 1970’s, is a philosophy that centralises the staff and community that the organisation serves as the leader’s primary priority. It’s about enhancing the intrinsic motivation of our people, leading ethically, with wider social responsibility in mind. It is a people-centred, moralistic, equitable form of leadership.
It is all about sharing the ‘power’ that your role has within the organisation and focuses on the leader’s role as being one to serve the people, instead of the people’s role to serve the leader.
“It is the leader’s role to serve the people, instead of the people’s role
to serve the leader”
But before Greenleaf’s writing on the topic, concepts of servant leadership have come up throughout history, especially in religious texts. In the Bible, Jesus Christ himself washed the feet of his disciples (his ‘followers’) to show them that he considered himself as equal to those that he led, that he cared for them and put their needs before his own.
1. Giving is Receiving
Giving has always been a guiding principle for me and was one of the keys to my rapid business success prior to taking on an Executive role at a university.
I taught business owners that in order to lead in their industries, it was critical that they generously gave away their best-kept secrets without measure – that the more they gave freely, the more they would get back.
The more they served their industry and their market, the more business they would get.
The more they gave people something to thank them for, the more successful they would become.
I encouraged aspiring professional speakers to speak for free if they wanted to get paid for it one day, and to keep doing it for free even when they were getting paid for it.
I encouraged educators to provide free workshops and give away free mini-courses.
I encouraged authors to write for free and give away their books – as all encapsulated a service to their industry and its people, rather than a marketer who wanted to take from it.
It works.
Just like a bank account – the more you deposit, the more you accumulate. People who could never afford you will get to experience you for themselves, they will recommend you and save up for your next offering because the first taste was so good.
Many found this a hard concept to grasp. They would ask me things like ‘but Sarah, if I give all of my information, knowledge, IP and secrets away, surely I’ll lose my business?’.
I would reply ‘But if they don’t know that you have it then you won’t get their business anyway. If people get to see for themselves that you acquire the information, skills and knowledge that they need, then they won’t need you to convince them to trust that you have it – there the battle is over’.
For me, I could (and still do) always see two types of people when it comes to service and leadership:
1. I will serve the people when I am their leader (I serve because I lead)
2. I will become a true leader as a result of my service to my field (I lead because I serve)
The first type of person is considered as having a goal-oriented motivator of service – there is a motivation behind their wanting to serve.
They come from what I would call a ‘leadership ambition’ standpoint – that they desire to lead and service is a by-product of leading or a means to get there. And therefore the only reason they serve is to gain the result of leadership.
These people often too believe that they will only have anything of real value to give ‘if’ they become the official ‘leader’. As long as they do go on to serve, this is not an inherently ‘wrong’ mindset, but it will be harder and slower to get there and they will run out of motivation to continue serving once they get ‘there’.
It also misses the point entirely that you don’t have to be a leader to serve others; AND that serving others is in fact what makes you into a leader – and keeps you as one.
The second type mentioned above is the person who I always see succeed – what I would call ‘the leader by nature’. They are not driven to serve by a desire to lead, but instead, naturally, are followed by others due to the service they provide so selflessly.
Inside the workplace, the same concepts apply – leaders are afraid that sharing with their team powerful information like budgets, income, annual objectives, implementation plans, strategic plans, staffing models, operational plans etc – that they will have no power, control or authority left.
But the absolute opposite happens.
The more that people feel like they know ‘what’s going on’ and that you care, the more they feel part of the organisation and therefore affiliated to the mission you are serving.
Share your power, knowledge and information as much as possible – not for the purposes of showing people how clever you are, or how much power you have – but instead to genuinely empower them with it.
Sometimes the true leaders in an organisation – that is the one who the majority trust unquestionably, feel like they have their back, listen to, seek advice from, consider to be the influencer and admire; are not always the ones with a formal leadership job title. They are the ones who intentionally, or naturally, serve others most.
2. Raise Better People
But servant leadership goes deeper than that.
It’s not just about serving our people so that they can better serve our customers.
It’s about serving them so that they can become better people – and better servants in the world itself.
Our role as a servant leader is to serve a future of opportunity to our staff – not just within the organisation but for their lives.
Do we provide them with opportunities to do their life’s best work?
Do we give them opportunities to grow as people, to learn and develop?
The freedom to make mistakes without fear but with enthusiasm and support?
Do they flourish in our workplace in that as the time they serve passes, they become more skilled, wiser, autonomous and better servers themselves?
Joe Iarocci, author of ‘Servant Leadership in the Workplace’ suggests that servant leaders have 3 key priorities, where people development comes first:
- The personal and professional development of your people
- The development of a workplace culture of trust
- An organisation that measures and achieves its results
Here are 7 other examples of servant leadership in action:
3. Commit to Good Stewardship
Good stewardship in its simplest definition, is taking care of, or looking after something. However it also has a more theological definition that denotes that we are responsible for the world and must take care of it for our future survival.
Being a good steward means ensuring the future vitality and wellbeing of our people, our organisation, our wider community and the planet.
It also means strategising the assurance of the sustainability and operations of our organisation, financially and in regards to all of our other resources.
Our leadership roles are only temporary, but we must see our service as part of a life-long legacy.
We live in an ever-changing world and it is our duty as servant leaders to be good stewards by constantly adapting and changing for the good of the future vitality of the organisation we work for and the community in which it operates.
4. Our Success is Others’
Servant leaders measure their success not by their own achievements and accomplishments, but instead by those they are serving.
In the education sector, this is an easy concept to understand as the translation is fairly literal – if our students are passing their exams, we are doing a great job.
However, this can be harder to conceptualise in other industry workplaces.
Use your organisation’s’ overarching strategic plan to create a detailed implementation plan that guides your team towards clear, specific and easily achievable tasks that they can move towards weekly – giving them frequent opportunity for a sense of accomplishment.
Find ways to show them how achieving these micro wins is leading them to achieving results that goes far beyond the duties on their job description – that they fulfil a much bigger mission, and have positive impacts far beyond the goals of the organisation.
Scour the internet for awards that you can nominate your team for – and give yourself a goal to recognise all of your top achievers with some kind of internal award or external award nomination.
I also encourage my staff to anonymously send me feedback (via an online form) to praise their colleagues, so that I can celebrate them on behalf of the organisation.
As servant leaders, there is no success that isn’t that of our teams.
5. Awareness and Foresight
It is critical as a servant leader that we have strong self-awareness to ensure that we recognise how our own behaviours, words and ‘energy’ affect those around us, and the humility to correct ourselves as we go along.
Servant leadership demands that we have the emotional intelligence to notice how our people are really feeling behind both good and bad physical behaviours, so that we can help them.
We must show awareness and remain attuned to the subtle underlying cultural heartbeat, sensing people’s feelings, moods, body language and verbal language used, to pick up on emerging trends and adjust the course as necessary to keep everything and everyone on track.
We can often critique the ‘jungle drums’ in an organisation (you know, that invisible vine of gossip that spreads ‘Chinese whispers’ through every department and that you are constantly trying to correct?!)
But it can also be a fantastic source of information – not literally (as the facts are usually wrong), but what people are whispering about can give us insightful clues to ways in which we can help and serve our people and the organisation.
It is also critical that we use all of this information as well as anecdotal, intuitive and measurable from our locality, our industry and the wider global trends, to have the foresight to serve further – to ensure that we can take action for the sustainability of the organisation, to ensure the continued growth and skills acquisition of our workforce to maintaining currency and demand in their roles and to know where and how we could be serving further for the good of all for the future.
6. Be Relatable and Show Empathy
Greenleaf believes that one of the first steps to becoming a servant leader requires us to be somebody that our staff can relate to.
However this is challenging when or if our staff see us as above them, more powerful than them or simply unapproachable.
Having empathy means understanding and sharing the feelings of another.
We should not condemn people in pain, anger, frustration or who act hastily or make mistakes. Instead, it is our role to understand the humanness of these responses, help our staff to overcome them, provide and implement the solutions to stop it from happening again and then provide them opportunity to heal.
It is also our duty as leaders to foster relatability through empathy. This is, to help them understand that not only do they have feelings, emotional reactions and humanness that must be acknowledged, respected and cared for, but so do we too.
It is incredibly easy for our staff to see us as some kind of inanimate machine that operates solely on coffee-fuel and policies.
We are all human beings who need love, compassion and understanding.
7. Don’t Be a Martyr
Many leaders sacrifice their own wants and needs for the good of others daily – those who have children are also a classic example.
Leaders often do it behind the scenes, taking the bullet from their own senior management on behalf of their team, or taking the bullets from their team on behalf of their senior management; working many unpaid hours attending events, pulling overtime and working through lunch breaks to ensure wages get paid and contracts get awarded to keep staff employed. A little self-sacrifice is required to get anything in life – it’s all part of the balance and is part of being a servant leader.
However, there is a big difference between self sacrifice and martyrdom. Serve because you enjoy it, because it’s your calling and because it is the right thing to do. Don’t serve out of the neediness for attention and sympathetic acknowledgements of ‘how hard you work’ – that’s not servant leadership, it’s being a martyr.
8. Inspiration, Spiritual and Transformational Beings
Being a servant leader is easier for those who can relate to spiritual and creative conceptualisation.
It requires a futuristic, optimistic, inspirational outlook that believes in the good of the giving of service and gets joy purely from that alone – but also believes that it ultimately leads to transformational outcomes – for the future of those that they serve and the ripple effect of ‘service that will come from those people later on too.
Servant leaders are innately philanthropic, have a ‘global’ cognitive processing system (that is, they see the much bigger picture) and do not require the acquisition of immediate results in order to ‘know’ that what they are doing is of value.
Servant leadership is about seeing what doesn’t yet exist and contributing all that we have, are and can do in order to support it’s actualisation. It’s about conceptualising a greater future, translating it into practice and inspiring and persuading others to join us in the service of that mission.
9. Build a Community
The servant leader believes in the greatness of each individual as much as the greater power and impact of their collective greatness – and that means building communities.
As Maslow tells us, a sense of ‘belonging’ is a critical component of our basic human needs. Therefore, as a servant leader creating a sense of community, regular ‘communion’, coming together, collegial trust, familiarity and communal safety, is another major responsibility of ours.
People can attain a sense of community by first being given the opportunity to build rapport and know each other outside of their immediate duty-related requirements – such as staff get togethers and activities.
But this sense of community, belonging and grows when there is a shared meaning, purpose or mission behind getting together. It can be a s small as raising money for a charity they all agree with supporting, to contributing social change in your community or the goals that your organisation is working towards at a mission level.
Find ways that you can help your team come together to be a part of something bigger than themselves, to find the commonalities between their most seemingly opposite colleagues and to find shared passions and values that they each stand for.
The power of one is multiplied when there is togetherness – as a servant leadership, we are the thread to bring and hold them together.
Never stop serving, and you’ll never stop leading.
Till next time,
STRIVE
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If you’re looking for a few words of encouragement or some helpful quotes about moving on from the past, then this page is for you. We pulled this page together because chances are you’ve experienced your fair share of hardships, and heartbreaks in the past. Experiences that have caused you pain and suffering, but that you have yet to let go.
So, if you are still afraid of the unknown, or uncertain about what the future holds for you, that’s okay, because these handful of quotes about moving on will help you push through those dark clouds of your past so you can finally get moving towards your better and brighter future.
With that said, if you’re ready for some inspiring words to help you move on from you past for good, then let’s get started.
Best Quotes About Moving On From The Past
1. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.” – Anonymous
2. “The past. It’s done. Move on.” – Anonymous
3. “Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.” – Elizabeth Scott
4. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
5. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.” – Anonymous
6. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
7. “Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there is more to your book of life than the page you’re stuck on.” – Anonymous
8. “If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to leave.” – Karen Salmansohn
9. “A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back — you just have to put that past behind you, and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult
10. “Morning will come, it has not choice.” – Anonymous
11. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
12. “If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.” – Debasish Mrdidha
13. “Note to self: Nobody is worth stressing over. Move on, leave people behind and go find yourself. The world is your. Life goes on.” – Anonymous
14. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” – Nicholas Sparks
15. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
16. “Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings.” – Johnathan Lockwoode
17. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
18. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
19. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – John Pierpont Morgan
20. “Don’t let your past kill your future.” – Anonymous
21. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
22. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
23. “It all starts with a small step.” – Anonymous
24. “Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.” – Steve Maraboli
25. “The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” – Theresa S. Monson
26. “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
27. “If you spend too long holding on to the one who treats you like an option, you’ll miss finding the one who treats you like a priority.” – Anonymous
28. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” – Joseph Campbell
29. “Life goes on… Whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been.” – Stephanie Smith
30. “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.” – Robert Plant
31. “You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.” – Mel Gibson
32. “There is a blessing in everything. Behind every moment of adversity in your life there is a blessing and a lesson. Every moment of adversity has those two things.” – Steve Harvey
33. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
34. “Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.” – Anonymous
35. “Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.” – Danica Patrick
36. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” – C. Joy Bell
37. “Life is like a road, there are bumps, there are cracks, there are road blocks, but the only important thing is that it keeps going.” – Anonymous
38. “Mistakes happen and life goes on.” – Sourav Ganguly
39. “Your past is just a story. And once you realize this is has no power of you.” – Chuck Palahniuk
40. “The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
41. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” – Maya Angelou
42. “The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me — and I love to live life at full throttle.” – Janice Dickinson
43. “You are allowed to let go of all those that do not set you free anymore.” – Dhiman
44. “At some point you must accept that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” – Anonymous
45. “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paolo Coelho
46. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
47. “Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross
48. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Suess
49. “People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.” – Mac Miller
50. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
51. “Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both.” – Lana Lang
52. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
53. “As long as you’re still alive, you always have the chance to start again.” – Emily Acker
54. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
55. “Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.” – Sonali Bendre
56. “Be strong, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it never rains forever.” – Anonymous
57. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you’re not willing to move your feet.” – Sean Patrick Flanery
59. “Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that, so no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac Shakur
60. “Leave the past where it is… Behind you!” – Anonymous
61. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown
62. “Forget the past.” – Nelson Mandela
63. “Let go of the past, but keep the lessons it taught you.” – Chiara Gizzi
64. “Sometimes you have to make a decision that will break your heart but heal your soul.” – Anonymous
65. “In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
66. “It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.” – Jordan B. Peterson
67. “Remember, whether you choose to move on or stay stuck in the past, life goes on!” – Billy Cox
68. “The past is in your head, but your future is in your hands.” – Anonymous
69. “Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.” – William Wordsworth
70. “Sometime, the best revenge is to just let go and move on.” – Anonymous
71. “Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.” – Paulo Coelho
72. “Sometimes you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.” – Anonymous
73. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montogomery
74. “Just when the caterpillar thought its life was over, it began to fly.” – Anonymous
75. “You can’t go back and change the beginning. But you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
76. “The truth is, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli
77. “Don’t let the darkness from your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things which no longer exist, when there is so much joy to be found her & now.” – Karen Salmansohn
78. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, “I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I am not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Olsteen
79. “When you bring peace to your past, you can move forward to your future.” – Anonymous
80. “Breathe in. Breath out. Move on.” – Move On Quote
81. “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” – Jan Glidewell
82. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
83. “Inhale the future, exhale the past.” – Anonymous
84. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” – Faraaz Kazi
85. “Focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from.” – Amy Harmon
86. “Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” – Roy T. Bennett
87. “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.” – Shannon A. Thompson
88. “Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.” – Nhat Hanh
89. “The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
90. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
91. “Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.” – Wayne Dyer
92. “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” – Gautama Buddha
93. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi
94. “You must make peace with your past in order to move forward with your future.” – Billy Cox
95. “Even if our life circumstances take a while to reflect our inner decisions, once decisions are made, everything in our life will move in the direction of aligning with that.” – Donna Goddard
96. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
97. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr
98. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f*** on.” – Tupac Shakur
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Anonymous
99. “The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.” – Edmond Mbiaka
100. “Your past doesn’t equal your future.” – Tony Robbins
Final Thoughts
There you have it, the best of the best moving on quotes. We hope they inspired you, even if just a little, to begin looking forward towards that bright new world of possibilities that awaits you.
Now it’s up to you to just take that first step and never look back.
Till then,
STRIVE
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We all have rough days now again, and sometimes a few inspiring words of encouragement is all it takes to reinvigorate us and help us get back into the swing of things. It doesn’t matter if you just need a little encouragement to help you continue putting one foot in front of the other, or if you’re seeking the type of inspiration that will get you running like you are on fire towards your dreams again, these inspirational picture quotes and motivational images will do the trick.
So, if you’re in a slump, struggling to push yourself, or looking for those final words of sincere encouragement to prompt you into action, let’s dive into this ultimate collection of motivational and inspirational picture quotes.
Best Inspirational Picture Quotes
1. “Believe you can and you are halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
2. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln
4. “It’s the start that stops most people.” – Anonymous
5. “Ever artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.” – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
7. “Don’t wait for opportunity, create it!” – Anonymous
8. “Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.” – Kanye West
9. “Don’t dream your life, but live your dream.” – Mark Twain
10. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
11. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln
12. “A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
13. “Success comes to those who become success conscious.” – Napoleon Hill
14. “Anything is possible with the right mindset.” – Tyson Fury
15. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” – Muhammad Ali
16. “Be obsessed or be average.” – Grant Cardone
17. ” Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
18. “Work hard. Work smart. Be patient.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
19. “Ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant McGill
20. “For things to change you have to change.” – Jim Rohn
21. “The path to success is to take massive determined action.” – Tony Robbins
22. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
23. “Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash
25. “Push yourself because no on else is going to do it for you.” – Mark Cuban
26. “Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.” – Robert Greene
27. “I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but the one thing I might regret was not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
28. “Live the life you deserve.” – Inspirational Picture Quote
29. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez
30. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
31. “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
32. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
33. “Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
34. “Dream big start small, but most of all, START.” – Simon Sinek
35. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” – Zig Ziglar
36. “If you believe in it and believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.” – Ray Kroc
37. “Stay patient and trust the journey.” – Anonymous
Best Motivational Picture Quotes and Images
We hope you’re enjoying our collection of inspirational picture quotes thus far. This next section is equally inspiring; however, these quote pictures are more motivational in nature. So, if you’re inspired, and now you’re looking for a good push, these motivational images and motivating picture quotes will do the trick. Enjoy!
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38. “Hunger is the only differentiation in people; it’s not talent.” – Tony Robbins
39. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to out work and out learn EVERYONE.” – Mark Cuban
40. “What you focus on expands.” – T. Harv Eker
41. “Men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.” – George S. Clason
42. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
43. “No one gets ahead by striving for mediocrity.” – Glenn C. Stewart
44. “Success without fulfillment IS failure.” – Tony Robbins
45. “If you don’t believe in yourself why is anyone else going to believe in you?” – Tom Brady
46. “You have to think big to be big.” – Claude M. Bristol
47. “Doubt is your enemy.” – Grant Cardone
48. “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky
49. “There is no shortage of money in this world. Start hustling.” – Grant Cardone
50. “Self-reliance is the best defense against the pressures of the moment.” – Carl Von Clausewitz
51. “I don’t stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done.” – David Goggins
52. “No one cares, work harder.” – Anonymous
53. “Rest when you’re dead.” – Motivational Picture Quote
54. “If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.” – William Feather
55. “Pause if you must, but don’t stop.” – Anonymous
56. “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
57. “I never dreamed of success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
58. “You back up, but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager
59. “Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.” – Steve Harvey
60. “Effort is grossly underrated.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
61. “Do the Work!” – The Ultimate Warrior
62. “Discipline is the architect of success.” – Motivational Image Quote
63. “Grow big by THINKING BIG.” – David J. Schwartz
64. “Greatness only comes before grind in the dictionary.” – The STRIVE
65. “Big men do not laugh at big ideas.” – David J. Schwartz
66. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.’ – Moliere
67. “The people who want to step into their GREATNESS are HUNGRY!” – Les Brown
68. “Your past does not equal your future.” – Tony Robbins
69. “When you have a hard life, a tough life, SUCCESS becomes VERY EASY.” – Khabib Nurmagomedov
70. “It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.’ – Robert Kiyosaki
71. “Sloth and prosperity can never be companions.” – James Allen
72. “Lost time is NEVER found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
73. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
74. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
75. “Comfort is the enemy of progress and growth.” – Motivational Quote With Picture
76. “I was willing to put in the work.” – Ray Lewis
77. “If you don’t play to WIN, don’t play at all.” – Tom Brady
78. “What you BELIEVE yourself to be, YOU ARE.” – Claude M. Bristol
79. “There’s ONLY one KING.” – Khabib Nurmagomedov
80. “Whatever you want to do, GO DO IT!” – Ray Lewis
81. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay
82. “It’s not where you start, it’s where you FINISH that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
Final Thoughts
There you have it, the best of the best when it comes to inspirational picture quotes and high-powered motivational images. We hope they did what they were intended to do, get you back on track, and hellbent on achieving your goals and dreams.
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Till then,
STRIVE
Oprah Winfrey is the billionaire media executive and philanthropist who has been inspiring people all over the world since 1986. She first made her mark as the host of one of the most popular talk shows off all time, and has since starred in multiple movies and launched her very own entertainment network known as OWN.
Needless to say, Oprah knows a thing or two about success and living an inspired life. As such, we’ve decided to roundup some of her most empowering quotes to help guide you on your success journey.
So, if you’re ready to be inspired and moved, then let’s dive into these powerful Oprah Winfrey quotes.
BEST OPRAH WINFREY QUOTES OF ALL TIME
1. “Anything you can imagine you can create.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
3. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you — always.” – Oprah Winfrey
4. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey
5. “The more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because, for sure, what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in life, you create more of it.” – Oprah Winfrey
6. “Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
7. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey
8. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
9. “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. But what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
10. “Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out and live fully.” – Oprah Winfrey
11. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
12. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
13. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey
14. “You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.” – Oprah Winfrey
15. “You can have it all, just not all at once.” – Oprah Winfrey
16. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
17. “You are what you are by what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
18. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
19. “Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
20. “Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power of this present moment, because life is now.” – Oprah Winfrey
21. “Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now.” – Oprah Winfrey
22. “Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
23. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
24. “The reason I’ve been so financially successful is my focus has never, for one minute been money.” – Oprah Winfrey
25. “Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
26. “Listen to the rhythm of your own calling, and follow that.” – Oprah Winfrey
27. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
28. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
29. “When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
30. “Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.” – Oprah Winfrey
31. “I finally realized being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.” – Oprah Winfrey
32. “If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.” – Oprah Winfrey
33. “Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.” – Oprah Winfrey
34. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
35. “Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.” – Oprah Winfrey
36. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” – Oprah Winfrey
37. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
38. “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.” – Oprah Winfrey
39. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
40. “You are the single biggest influence in your life.” – Oprah Winfrey
41. “To move forward, you have to give back.” – Oprah Winfrey
42. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.” – Oprah Winfrey
43. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.” – Oprah Winfrey
44. “Doing the best in this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
45. “So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.” – Oprah Winfrey
46. “It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.” – Oprah Winfrey
47. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
48. “I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.” – Oprah Winfrey
49. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” – Oprah Winfrey
50. “Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it.” – Oprah Winfrey
52. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint, that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love, and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” – Oprah Winfrey
53. “I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.'” – Oprah Winfrey
54. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey
55. “The more you praise an celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
56. “Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.” – Oprah Winfrey
57. “I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey
58. “Luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
59. “When someone shows you lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that this will followed man many other times.” – Oprah Winfrey
60. “You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
61. “Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, nd soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” – Oprah Winfrey
62. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
63. “You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.” – Oprah Winfrey
64. “True forgiveness is when you can say… Thank you for that experience.” – Oprah Winfrey
65. “Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgements of others.” – Oprah Winfrey
66. “Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.” – Oprah Winfrey
67. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
68. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
69. “I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.” – Oprah Winfrey
70. “When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that’s how you know you’re on the right path.” – Oprah Winfrey
71. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey
72. “You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticizing. You cannot be loving when you are judging.” – Oprah Winfrey
73. “If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus.” – Oprah Winfrey
74. “You don’t have to hold yourself hostage to who you used to be.” – Oprah Winfrey
75. “The way through the challenge is to get still, and ask yourself: what is the next right move.” – Oprah Winfrey
76. “The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.” – Oprah Winfrey
77. “You only have control over yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
78. “Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it.” – Oprah Winfrey
79. “If you want to live an adventurous life, have complete confidence in your body, mind and spirit.” – Oprah Winfrey
80. “Look for something positive each day, even if you have to look a little harder.” – Oprah Winfrey
81. “Big miracles we’re waiting on are happening right in front of us, at every moment, with every breath. Open your eyes and heart and you’ll begin to see them.” – Oprah Winfrey
82. “How you spend your time defines who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
83. “What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.” – Oprah Winfrey
84. “When people show you who they are… believe them!” – Oprah Winfrey
85. “I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
86. “As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you — the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey
87. “Don’t let people talk you into what they think is you.” – Oprah Winfrey
88. “You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.” – Oprah Winfrey
89. “Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.” – Oprah Winfrey
90. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey
91. “Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.” – Oprah Winfrey
92. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
93. “What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.” – Oprah Winfrey
94. “When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do it feels right, and every day is a bonus regardless of what you’re getting paid.” – Oprah Winfrey
95. “Every right decision I ever made has come from my gut.” – Oprah Winfrey
96. “Every wrong decision I’ve ever made was a result of me not listing to the greater voice of myself.” – Oprah Winfrey
97. “Even doubt means don’t.” – Oprah Winfrey
98. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling, everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.” – Oprah Winfrey
99. “I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.” – Oprah Winfrey
100. “What I’ve found is that difficulties come when you don’t pay attention to life’s whisper, because life always whispers to you first. And if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you’ll get a scream.” – Oprah Winfrey
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Bonus Oprah Winfrey Quote
Bonus: Alright, here’s our final Oprah Winfrey quote for success. We think it encapsulates her essence and message better than any other quote. So, be sure to take this one to heart. Enjoy!
“The Big Secret In Life Is That There Is No Big Secret. Whatever Your Goal, You Can Get There If You’re Willing To Work.”
– oprah winfrey –
Final Thoughts
There you have it, the best of the best when it comes Oprah quotes. We hope you found as much inspiration and wisdom in her quotes as we did.
No doubt, Oprah understands what it takes to live a truly fulfilling and successful life, so to take her words to heart, and come back again whenever you need another dose of Oprah-inspired empowerment.
Till then,
STRVE
Gratitude is the quality of being thankful. It’s a readiness to show appreciation, and an eager willingness to return kindness to the person or entity that has graced us with the good we find ourselves appreciating. Gratitude is a positive quality that allows us to celebrate the present, block toxic emotions and experiences, reduce stress, and improve our self-worth. In short, gratitude is good and can help us create a beautiful life. So, in honor of this powerful life-enhancing attitude, we aim to publish some of our favorite gratitude quotes.
Our hope is that these gratitude quotes will help you realize that an attitude of gratitude is worth embracing all year long, and not just in November. With that said, if you’re ready for some of the most inspiring gratitude quotes and sayings, let’s dive in:
BEST GRATITUDE QUOTES AND SAYINGS
1. “Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for “what is”. – Eckhart Tolle
2. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle
3. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
4. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.” – Zig Ziglar
6. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig Ziglar
7. “Gratitude is the vessel that we lift to the Gods that they may fill it with their wonder-gifts.” – Rudolf Steiner
8 “Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.” – Wayne Dyer
9. “Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what’s missing in your life but in how you can serve.” – Wayne Dyer
10. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
11. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
12. “Here dies another day during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me; and with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed two?” – G.K. Chesterton
13. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
14. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of though; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton
15. “When you direct your focus toward gratitude, you’ll find true joy and fulfillment.” – Tony Robbins
16. “Trade your expectation to appreciation and the world changes instantly.” – Tony Robbins
17. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
18. “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.” – Albert Schweitzer
19. “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything he has given us — and he has given us everything.” – Thomas Merton
20. “Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.” – Robert Braathe
21. “Gratitude therefore take nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.” – Thomas Merton
22. “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
23. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
24. “The more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because for sure what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in life, you create more of it.” – Oprah Winfrey
25. “I am happy because I am grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Will Arnet
26. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
27. “My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, all is good.” – Louise Hay
28. “That’s just the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.” – Louise Hay
29. “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
30. “Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.” – Jack Canfield
31. “I awoke this morning with devout thanskgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short Gratitude Quotes
We hope you enjoyed the inspiring gratitude quotes above. This next set is no less inspiring, but is a collection of some of those pithy and short gratitude quotes that pack a punch. We hope you appreciate them.
32. “Gratitude is the energy of faith.” – William Arthur Ward
33. “The universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.” – Wayne Dyer
34. “The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.” – Louise Hay
35. “When you’re present in gratitude you can’t be anywhere else.” – Jay Shetty
36. “A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” – Gratitude Quote
37. “Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” – C.S. Lewis
38. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Tony Robbins
39. “I can no other answer make, but thanks and thanks, and ever thanks.” – William Shakespeare
40 “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
41. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may loo bac and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
Best Attitude of Gratitude Quotes
Having an attitude of gratitude is key to living our best lives. It’s a practice and habit that we should all embrace. With that said, below is small collection of some of the best quotes attitude of gratitude quotes. Enjoy.
42. “Always have an attitude of gratitude.” – Sterling K. Brown
43. “Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.” – Zig Ziglar
44. “Of all the ‘attitudes’ we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.” – Zig Ziglar
45. “Be present in all things, and thankful for all things.” – Maya Angelou
46. “You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.” – Jen Sincero
47. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
48. “There are so many things in the world that could be invisible to the material eye, and when you take a moment to stop, to pause, to be present and notice them — that’s gratitude.” – Jay Shetty
49. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” – Brian Tracy
50. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day
51. “Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.” – Arianna Huffington
52. “Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to effect change in your life — this I know for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
53. “O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.” – William Shakespeare
54. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick
55. “When you drink from the stream remember the spring.” – Chinese Proverb
56. “When you arise in the morning, think of the precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love — then make that day count.” – Steve Maraboli
57. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Nietzsche
58. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” – John Ortberg
59. “You can’t be grateful and be a victim at the same time. Stop playing the blame game.” – Ed Mylett
60. “Gratitude erases negativity.” – Steve Harvey
61. “Let your small appreciations build into a tidal wave of gratitude.” – Ken Honda
62. “Gratitude works like miracles. If you pour on gratitude, everything melts, especially bad feelings.” – Wahei Takeda
63. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “What you focus on you create more of, so if the plan is to get rich, you’re gonna want to focus on abundance as much as possible. Give as much as you can as often as you can, receive with gratitude and joy, think of money as your pal, raise your frequency and get in the flow, yo.” – Jen Sincero
65. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
66. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis
67. “Showing gratitude is the easiest and yet most impactful thing we can do for each other.” – Lori Greiner
68. “I know it may sound crazy but I try to keep the hard times of the past in the forefront of my mind, because it allows me to live every day with a greater perspective, purpose and GRATITUDE.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
69. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
70. “Celebrate what you want more of.” – Tom Peters
71. “If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.” – Jen Sincero
72. “Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson.” – Bob Proctor
73. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
74. “If you can’t find gratitude, you’ll never find peace.” – Leticia Rae
75. “A noble person is mindful and thankful of the favors he receives from others.” – Buddha
76. “The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.” – Robert Holden
77. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.” – Joyce Meyer
78. “Love those who appreciate you, and appreciate those who love you.” – Connor Chalfant
79. “Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.” – William Bennett
80. “Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle.” – Mary Davis
81. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
82. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” – Ernest Hemingway
83. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Wille Nelson
84. “Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” – Eileen Caddy
85. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum
86. “My grateful heart is a magnet that attracts everything I desire.” – Gratitude quote
87. “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett
88. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
89. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
90. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop
91. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
92. “Gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
93. “Gratitude is more than an intellectual thought process. You have to feel as though whatever you want is in your reality at this very moment. Thus, your body must be convinced that it has the emotional quotient of the future experience, happening to you now.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
94. “What are you grateful for right now? Gratitude can shift your energy, raise your vibration, and make all your next moments even better.” – Joe Vitale
95. “One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.” – Joe Vitale
96. “Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.” – Jim Rohn
97. “Don’t wait for a greater life to be grateful. Be grateful and you’ll have a greater life.” – Jim Kwik
98. “If you live in the flow of gratitude, your life will be full of unexpected miracle.” – Ken Honda
99. “Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life.” – Vishen Lakhiani
100. “Gratitude is the antidote to unhappiness.” – Ed Mylett
101. “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” – Norman Vincent Peale
102. “A grateful heart is the best kind to have.” – Anonymous
103. “The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.” – Mother Teresa
104. “‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.” – Alice Walker
105. “Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
Final Thoughts
Alright, if you’ve ever wondered what is a good quote for gratitude, well, now you have plenty of answers. One thing to keep in mind is that gratitude is something we should embrace as often as possible, not just one month out of the year.
These quotes are not just year end gratitude quotes, these are quotes to help you appreciate…appreciation all year long. Why? Because that’s how a greater and more beautiful life is created.
With said, stay grateful, stay positive, and thank you for stopping by. We’re sincerely grateful!
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
There’s nothing like a few good short quotes to help brighten your day or improve your mindset, especially when times get tough. Quotes have the uncanny ability to inspire, enlighten, and boost our moods all at once. Inspirational short quotes in particular are very helpful, especially when we’re pressed for time.
So, if you’re like most readers of The STRIVE, busy working hard, dreaming big, and striving to achieve big dreams, then you’ll appreciate these pithy, yet extremely inspirational short quotes. We’ve rounded up some of the most inspiring short quotes on life, love, and happiness to give you a quick burst of inspiration when you need it most, but when you’re short on time. Enjoy!
Short Inspirational Quotes For Living Your Best Life
1. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “Live what you love.” – Anonymous
3. What we do now echoes in eternity.” – Marcus Aurelius
4. “You are your home.” – Erin Hanson
5. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
6. “Little by little one walks far.” – Peruvian Proverb
7. “All progress is experimental.” – Jim Rohn
7. “Kindness always comes back.” – K. Tolnoe
9. “You know the truth by the way it feels.” – Anonymous
10. “Stay patient and trust the journey.” – The Universe
11. “I am doing this for me.” – Anoymous
12. “When words fail, music speaks.” – Shakespeare
13. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” – Rumi
14. “Intuition is seeing with the soul.” – Dean Koontz.
15. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.” – Bob Proctor
16. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
17. “If you can’t get a miracle, become one.” – Nick Vujicic
18. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
19. “Die with memories, not dreams.” – Anonymous
20. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day
Short Inspirational Quotes About Life
We have multiple collections of quotes on this page, and this particular section consists of the very best short inspirational quotes about life. So, if you’re looking for a handful of short quotes with a strong focus life, then you’ll enjoy these quotes.
21. “Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.” – Vincent Van Gogh
22. “Life is short, make it sweet.” – Anonymous
23. “Life is too short and happiness is too rare.” -A.R. Lucas
24. “Live life to the fullest because it only happens once.” – Maddi Jenkins
25. “Live, laugh, leave a legacy.” – Stephen R. Covey
26. “Everybody has their own kind of weird.” – Anonymous
27. “Always be a work in progress.” – Emily Lillian
28. “Nothing in life is promised except death.” – Kanye West
29. “Stay strong. Be brave. Go beyond.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
30. “Dreams without goals remain dreams.” – Denzel Washington
31. “Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.” -Orhan Pamuk
32. “Creativity is an expression of our enthusiasm.” – Earl Nightingale
33. Enjoy your life now. This is not a rehearsal.” – Bob Marley
34. “Life is short, break the rules.” – Mark Twain
35. “Life is short and death is long.” – Fritz Shoulder
36. “And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou
37. “Out of the mountain top of despair, a stone of hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
38. “Life is too short to not be fearless for what you want.” – Atlas Rowe
39. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
40. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
Short Motivational Quotes
No collection of short quotes would be complete here on The Strive if didn’t include at least a few motivational quotes. As such, we snuck in these highly motivational short quotes to keep you inspired to chase those meaningful goals that add so much value to this thing called life.
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41. “Where determination is, the way can be found. – George S. Clason
42. “It always seems impossible, until its done.” – Nelson Mandela
43. “Without labor nothing prospers.” – Sophocles
44. “Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
45. “Be obsessed or be average.” – Grant Cardone
46. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
47. “If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.” – Claude M. Bristol
48. “The key to success is failure.” – Michael Jordan
49. “Good ideas are always crazy until they are not.” – Elon Musk
50. “Keep trying you will get there.” – Anonymous
51. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
52. “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendel Holmes
53. “Mindset is everything.” – Short Quote
55. “Fear causes hesitation, hesitation causes fear.” – Dana Emleh
55. “Whatever you do, do it well.” – Walt Disney
56. “Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win.” – Rihanna
57. “Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.” – Anonymous
58. “Act as if what you do makes a difference.” IT DOES.” – William James
59. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
60. “Doubt is your enemy.” – Grant Cardone
Short Quotes About Happiness and Love
One of best things about life is love. As such, we carved out this special section to include some of the most inspiring short quotes about happiness and love. We hope you love them as much as we do. (Pun intended.)
61. “We are most alive when we are in love.” – John Updike
62. “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather
63. “In love there are two things: bodies and words.” – Joyce Carol Oates
64. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
65. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
66. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” – Rumi
67. “Love recognizes no barriers.” – Maya Angelou
68. “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
69. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
70. “Where there is love there is life.” – Gandhi
71. “I knew I loved you before I met you.” – Savage Garden
72. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
73. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
74. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
75. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
76. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
77. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – Shakespeare
78. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
79. “Let the Beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
80. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Goethe
Short Quotes on Happiness
This next batch of short quotes is related to happiness. Life is too short to spend time on long winded quotes on happiness. So, quickly fill your mind with a few of this short happiness quotes, and then go live out your happiest life.
81. “A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.” – Atticus
82. “Smile. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Anonymous
83. “Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle
84. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
85. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
86. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
87. “Happiness is the best makeup.” – Drew Barrymore
88. “Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all you want” – Jim Rohn
89. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
90. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
91. “Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life.” – Omar Khayyam
92. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
93. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
94. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Shopenhauer
95. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
96. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
97. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
98. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle
99. “Every day is a new day.” – Carrie Underwood
100. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” – Buddha
101. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins
102. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
103. “To get whatever you want, is to be happy now.” – Rhonda Byrne
Bonus Short Quote
Bonus: Alright, you’ve made it to the end, and this is by far one of our favorite short quotes. So, we’ve added it as a bonus to highlight it because it encapsulates one of our primary messages here at The STRIVE. Enjoy.
“I Failed My Way To Success.”
– thomas edison –
Final Thoughts
We hope you enjoyed our collection of short inspirational quotes, as there was certainly a little something for everyone.
If any of these short quotes stood out to you or moved you, please makes somebody’s day, and share it with them. You never know which word or short quote will be the one to improve somebody’s outlook for life.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed this collection of short quotes then you’ll certainly love these quotes about living life to the fullest.
If you’re looking for some truly inspiring trust your gut quotes related to trusting your instincts and intuition, then you’ll love this page. But, before we dive into those quotes, know this…
Trusting one’s gut is not as easy at is seems. In fact, many people struggle with listening to that small voice that gently attempts to guide them into making the right choice. Too many of us persist in seeking outside or external validation, especially when it comes to making those critical decisions around our relationships, career, or key life choices. But, the answers to most of everything we seek resides within us. We believe most people know this to be true deep down, they just need to be reminded.
So, the purpose of this post is to reawaken your self-trust with a handful of inspiring trust your gut quotes. Our hope is that they’ll inspire you to realize once and for all, that it’s not only okay to start trusting your gut, but advantageous to just about every area of your life.
With that being said, let’s dive into these encouraging trust your gut quotes:
50 Encouraging Trust Your Gut Quotes
1. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” – Rumi
2. “Always trust your first gut instincts. If you feel in your heart and soul that something is wrong it probably is.” – Anonymous
3. “When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!” – George S. Patton
4. “Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason.” – John Kord Lagemann
5. “Always trust your gut feelings. As they never lie as people do.” – Anonymous
6. “You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn’t feel right. Trust your instints and listen to your inner-voice — it’s trying to protect you.” – Bryant McGill
7. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.” – Oprah Winfrey
8. “The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” – Lao Tzu
9. “Always trust your gut. It knows what your head hasn’t figured out yet.” – Trust Your Gut Quote
10. “Intuition is seeing with the soul.” – Dean Koontz.
11. “The only person you have to blame is yourself when you could have made a different choice but instead you went against your gut feeling.” – Germany Kent
12. “Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.” – Paula Abdul
13. “Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” – Paulo Coelho
14. “As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.” – Gina Greenlee
15. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life and karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
16. “Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
17. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” – Dr. Benjamin Spock
18. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein
19. “Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.” – Paul Tillich
20. “Trust your heart and success will come to you.” – Oprah Winfrey
21. “If you’re going to trust one person, let it be yourself.” – Robert Tew
22. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Joyce Brothers
23. “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.” – Agatha Christie
24. “Trust in your innate wisdom. Your instincts know what is going on, long before your mind has caught up.” – Leon Brown
25. “Instinct is the nose of the mind.” – Madame De Girardin
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26. “If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.” – Mandy Hale
27. “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong…. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “Never apologize for trusting your intuition – your brain can play tricks, your heart can blind, but your gut is always right.” – Rachel Wolchin
30. “I listen to my gut, it’s not an emotion, it’s an index of risk.” – Kevin O’Leary
31. “Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.” – Robert Heller
32. “The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become, the stronger you become and the happier you become.” – Gisele Bundchen
33. “Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do.” – Seth Godin
34. “Follow your instincts and do not let other people’s opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.” – Sarah Jessica Parker.
35. “If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
36. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
37. “I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.” – Richard Branson
38. “Creativity coms from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” – Rita Mae Brown
39. “Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.” – Shannon L. Alder
40. “Doubt is your enemy.” – Grant Cardone
41. “Keep trying. Stay humble, trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
42. “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” – Billy Wilder
43. “The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.” – Lionel Messi
44. “You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don’t. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can — including the obstacles — to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?” – Richard Branson
45. “You know the truth by the way it feels.” – Anonymous
46. “In life we have many opportunities where we can’t see all the consequences, and there’s only one choice, it’s just to trust your gut.” – Garry Kasparov
47. “I learned to trust my own instincts.” – Ralph Lauren
48. “I don’t think you’re born with a gut. The gut matures and gets better and better over time. The struggle most people have I think, is learning to listen to it, figuring out how to access it in some way.” – Tim Cook
49. “You are a powerful point of consciousness. A bright particle of light within the Greater Light. Be brave, be wise, and always trust your gut.” – Anthon St. Maarten
50. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
51. “Trust your gut. Listen to your heart. This world wasn’t built by people with small vision and minor thoughts. It was built by the misfits, eccentrics and oddballs who had the courage to passionately follow the voice of their dreams.” – Robin Sharma
52. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey
53. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
54. “Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” – Barbara Corcoran
55. “Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything.” – Lulu Guinness
56. “Follow your intuition.” – Steven Spielberg
Final Thoughts
There you have it, some of the best trust your gut quotes to inspire you to listen a little less to all those conflicting external voices that claim to know what’s best for you, and instead have a a lot more faith in your instincts and intuition.
Till next time,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these quotes related to listening to your intuition and trusting your gut, then you’ll likely love these quotes about trusting yourself.
Simon Sinek is an American best-selling author, an inspirational speaker, and a visionary thinker whose already inspired hundreds of millions of people all over the world. He’s best known for his TED Talk on the concept of WHY, and his viral video on millennials in the workplace. However, he continues to inspire with his leadership development company, ‘The Optimism Company’, and through his podcast, ‘A Bit of Optimism’.
That said, Simon knows a thing or two about success, leadership, and finding a way to live out your best life. As such, we’ve rounded up this collection of the most inspirational and insightful Simon Sinek quotes. Our hope, is that you’ll be able to leverage their wisdom to find the inspiration needed to achieve the success you seek. So, if you’re ready to be inspired, let’s dive into these Simon Sinek quotes.
BEST SIMON SINEK QUOTES FOR SUCCESS
1. “When we work hard for something we don’t believe in, it’s called stress. When we work hard for something we love, it’s called passion.” – Simon Sinek
2. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.” – Simon Sinek
3. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – Simon Sinek
4. “The goal is not to be better by the end. The goal is to be better tomorrow.” – Simon Sinek
5. “There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” – Simon Sinek
6. “The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting that the stories of the accomplished past.” – Simon Sinek
7. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” – Simon Sinek
8. “Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.” – Simon Sinek
9. “You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.” – Simon Sinek
10. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek
11. “A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.” – Simon Sinek
12. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.” – Simon Sinek
13. “When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.” – Simon Sinek
14. “The value of a true leader is not measured by the work they do, but by the work they inspire others to do.” – Simon Sinek
15. “As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.” – Simon Sinek
16. “I find, when you’re an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.” – Simon Sinek
17. “When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.” – Simon Sinek
18. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.” – Simon Sinek
19. “It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.” – Simon Sinek
20. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” – Simon Sinek
21. “There is an entire section in the bookshop called self-help, but there is no section called help others. We are helping to build the help others industry… And it starts with Optimism.” – Simon Sinek
22. “The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven’t figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, ‘There’s something fishy about you.'” – Simon Sinek
23. “The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.” – Simon Sinek
24. “We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.” – Simon Sinek
25. “A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.” – Simon Sinek
26. “Anyone can sell a product by dropping prices, but it doesn’t breed loyalty.” – Simon Sinek
27. “A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.” – Simon Sinek
28. “You get to take credit when you also take accountability.” – Simon Sinek
29. “The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.” – Simon Sinek
30. “Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.” – Simon Sinek
31. “If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.” – Simon Sinek
32. “Giving doesn’t mean we don’t ask for help. Giving means that we ask for help so that we can better give to others.” – Simon Sinek
33. “Don’t freak yourself out by what others have. They don’t have what you got.” – Simon Sinek
34. “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about take care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
35. “The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.” – Simon Sinek
36. “The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger — not because they don’t acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.” – Simon Sinek
37. “Vision is a destination — a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route — an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.” – Simon Sinek
38. “Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value determined by those who choose to pay it.” – Simon Sinek
39. “If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.” – Simon Sinek
40. “Integrity is when we say the same thing publicly that we say privately.” – Simon Sinek
41. “The best way to find joy in our lives or overcome struggle is with the help of others.” – Simon Sinek
42. “There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” – Simon Sinek
43. “We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” – Simon Sinek
44. “Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and most importantly, a way of communicating.” – Simon Sinek
45. “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.” – Simon Sinek
46. “To think that you’re an expert in anything is a dangerous pursuit. You’re never as good as you could be, there’s always room for improvement.” – Simon Sinek
47. “The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.” – Simon Sinek
48. “It is important to celebrate our victories, but we cannot linger on them. For the Infinite Game is still going and there is still much work to be done.” – Simon Sinek
49. “We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.” – Simon Sinek
50. “Money is fuel and fuel is very important.” – Simon Sinek
51. “My ‘Why’ is to inspire people to do what inspires them.” – Simon Sinek
52. “When we try to please everyone, we end up pleasing no one… lease of all ourselves.” – Simon Sinek
53. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek
54. “Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of WHY we do WHAT we do.” – Simon Sinek
55. “Leadership is an education and the best leaders think of themselves as the students, no the teachers.” – Simon Sinek
56. “If you say what you believe, and you do what you believe, you will attract people who will believe what you believe.” – Simon Sinek
57. “Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get.” – Simon Sinek
58. “A boss tells people what they must do to achieve a goal. A leader asks people what they can do to advance a vision.” – Simon Sinek
59. “All managers of metrics have an opportunity to become leaders of people.” – Simon Sinek
60. “The best leaders are the ones that learn to be the last to speak.” – Simon Sinek
61. “Companies that are built for stability can weather hard times, but they rarely improve from it. When we build for resilience, we can actually adapt and come out stronger.” – Simon Sinek
62. “A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.” – Simon Sinek
63. “The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.” – Simon Sinek
65. “Playing the infinite game of life requires an Infinite Mindset in order to succeed.” – Simon Sinek
66. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Simon Sinek
67. “Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.” – Simon Sinek
68. “If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.” – Simon Sinek
69. “Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.” – Simon Sinek
70. “The only way to “Find out if it will work out” is to do it.” – Simon Sinek
71. “Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.” – Simon Sinek
72. “Most of us live our lives by accident—we live as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.” – Simon Sinek
73. “Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.” – Simon Sinek
74. “If we were good at everything, we would have no need for each other.” – Simon Sinek
75. “Focus on where you’re going and you’ll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you’re taking and you won’t know where you’re going.” – Simon Sinek
76. “It’s not about the events. It’s not about intensity. It’s about consistency.” – Simon Sinek
77. “You have an entire generation that has access to an addictive numbing chemical called dopamine through social media and cell phones as they are going through the high stress of adolescences.” – Simon Sinek
78. “If you wake up and you check your phone before you say good morning to your girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse, you have an addiction. And like all addiction, in time it’ll destroy relationships, it will cost time, and it will cost money, and it will make your life worse.” – Simon Sinek
79. “What this young generation needs to learn is patience, that some things that really, really matter, like love, or job fulfillment, joy, love of life, self-confidence, a skill-set, any of these things, all of these things take time.” – Simon Sinek
80. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.” – Simon Sinek
81. “There’s another study that was released not that long ago, that says that parents who work late, the negative impact that it has on their children is little to none. They may feel guilty as parents, but the negative impact it has on the raising of their children is little to none. However, parents who come home from jobs they hate or don’t love, their kids are likely to be bullies at school.”
82. “Greatness is not born from one success. It’s born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.” – Simon Sinek
83. “Success is a team sport. Failure we can do alone. Success takes the help of others.” – Simon Sinek
84. “No matter when or where, always bring your ‘A’ game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.” – Simon Sinek
85. “It’s not about being ranked number one, it’s not about having more followers on Twitter than your friends, its not about outdoing anyone, its about outdoing yourself.” – Simon Sinek
86. “Great leaders don’t blame the tools they are given. They work to sharpen them.” – Simon Sinek
87. “A boss has a title, a leader has the people.” – Simon Sinek
88. “When in doubt, be yourself.” – Simon Sinek
89. “Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t’ actually driven to lead people, they are driven to serve them.” – Simon Sinek
90. “The way we find fulfillment is by doing good for others.” – Simon Sinek
91. “Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.” – Simon Sinek
92. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” – Simon Sinek
93. “An entrepreneur is somebody who is constantly looking for a better way to do something, there’s sort of a mad scientist about them.” – Simon Sinek
94. “Very few organizations WHY they do what they do. WHY is not about making money. That’s a result. WHY is a purpose, cause, or belief. It’s the very reason your organization exists.” – Simon Sinek
95. “As it turns out all the great and inspiring leaders and organizations in the world, whether its Apple, or Martin Luther King, or The Wright Brothers, they all think, act, and communicate the exact same way… and it’s the complete opposite to everyone else.” – Simon Sinek
96. “We don’t get to choose the nature of the game, life is infinite. We don’t even get to choose if we want to play in the game or not, once you’re born, you’re in it. We get one choice, do you want to play with a finite mindset, or do you want to play with an infinite mindset.” – Simon Sinek
97. “There’s two ways to see the world; some people see the thing that they want, and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want.” – Simon Sinek
98. “Passion is the feeling you have, that you’d probably do this for free you know, and you can’t believe somebody pays you to do it.” – Simon Sinek
99. “Sometimes, you’re the problem.” – Simon Sinek
100. “Words may inspire, but only action creates change.” – Simon Sinek
Bonus Simon Sinek Quote
Bonus: Alright, here is our final and favorite Simon Sinek quote. We’ve added it here as bonus, because we believe it can truly help you find success, if you’ll truly believe it.
“Our Struggles Are The Short-Term Steps We Must Take On Our Way To Long-Term Success.”
– simon sinek –
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FINAL THOUGHTS
You’ve made it to the end of our Simon Sinek quote collection, great job! We hope you found his words both inspiring and insightful. More importantly, we hope they provided you with the clarity needed to become a better leader, live a more fulfilled life, and achieve meaningful success in your career or business.
That said, we appreciate you stopping and we wish you the very best in your efforts of finding the success you seek.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these Simon Sinek quotes, then you’ll likely enjoy reading the wise words of equally inspiring thought leaders like Gary Vee, Ryan Holiday, or Tony Robbins.
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