200 Quotes From Spiritual Leaders

by Anne Clark | Aug 2, 2024 | Inspiration

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” – Ram Dass

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

“The purpose of life is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.” – Isaac Newton

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” – Buddha

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” – Wayne Dyer

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” – Buddha

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.” – Swami Vivekananda

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.” – Eckhart Tolle

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” – Confucius

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” – Buddha

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James

“True love is born from understanding.” – Buddha

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” – Arabian Proverb

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” – Buddha

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

“Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like.” – Ethan Walker III

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Dalai Lama

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” – Buddha

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.” – Lao Tzu

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” – Buddha

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” – Dalai Lama

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

“The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are what you believe yourself to be.” – Paulo Coelho

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” – Pema Chödrön

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

“Love is the only reality, and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” – Rumi

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoey Sayward

“When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.” – Lao Tzu

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“He who is contented is rich.” – Lao Tzu

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” – Albert Einstein

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller

“Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

“Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Dan Reeves

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi

“Love is the absence of judgment.” – Dalai Lama

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else.” – Unknown

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” – Unknown

“Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

“Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean

“The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

“Practice makes progress, not perfect.” – Unknown

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Unknown

“The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown

“Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Unknown

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Unknown

“Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Unknown

“Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.” – Unknown

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown

“Little things make big days.” – Unknown