Inspirational Quotes by Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Dreams

What’s the good of all our learning, knowing how to read and write and spell if no one ever teaches us the value of life, of our uniqueness, and personal dignity?
—Leo Buscaglia

We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the “capacity” to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the “ability”.
—Leo Buscaglia

The person, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Risk, Feelings, Danger

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
—Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
—Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
—Leo Buscaglia

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn’t affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made—everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we’ve effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.
—Leo Buscaglia

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that, I have complete control.
—Leo Buscaglia

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, “No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.”
—Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Life, Love, Goodness, Power, Kindness, Motivation

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
—Leo Buscaglia

You can’t imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I’ve said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
—Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love, Life

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Individuality, People, Honesty, Love, Courage

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love, Death, Doubt

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
—Leo Buscaglia

I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
—Leo Buscaglia

The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Battle

Go around—listen to how many times a day you say, “I love” instead of, “I hate”. Isn’t it interesting that children, as they learn the process of language, always learn the word “no” years before they learn the word “yes”? Ask linguists where they hear it. Maybe if they heard more of “I love, I love, I love” they’d hear it sooner and more often.
—Leo Buscaglia

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Choice

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Courage, Life, Growth

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Inner-child

I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
—Leo Buscaglia

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
—Leo Buscaglia

One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love

L-O-V-E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.
—Leo Buscaglia

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Smile, Faith

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
—Leo Buscaglia

People are not here to meet your expectations.
—Leo Buscaglia

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
—Leo Buscaglia

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love, Living, Life

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Friendship

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Purpose, Vision

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
—Leo Buscaglia

This loving person is a person who abhors waste—waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Learning, Time Management, Action

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
—Leo Buscaglia

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… it tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
—Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self—a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change—the willful act of making the change, doing something.
—Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Change, Learning

We take love for granted. We assume we are all perfect lovers and all we need do is wait and our love will grow and blossom as readily as a flower in spring. Not so. Love doesn’t grow unless we do. It takes patience, knowledge, experience, determination, and every positive trait we possess. In addition, love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
—Leo Buscaglia

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