Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Awareness

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
Hugh Prather (b.1938) American Christian Author, Minister, Counselor

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
French Proverb

The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient, too.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow (1908–70) American Psychologist, Academic, Humanist

He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95) French Poet, Short Story Writer

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Czech Dramatist, Statesman

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Awareness without action is worthless.
Phil McGraw (b.1950) American TV Personality

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–97) American Poet, Activist

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German Novelist, Short Story Writer, Social Critic, Philanthropist, Essayist

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German Literary and Marxist Critic

When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.
Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) Indian Hindu Religious Leader

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian

Between religion’s “this is” and poetry’s “but suppose this is,” there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
Northrop Frye

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold (1822–88) English Poet, Critic

Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American Psychiatrist, Author

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
Unknown

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet

Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.
Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) Indian Hindu Religious Leader

Mind is really a tape recorder. But it is not continuously on, not twenty-four hours on. When needed, the witness, the man of meditation, the man of awareness, is capable of putting the mind on or off. He puts it on when there is some need….
Sri Rajneesh (Osho) (1931–90) Indian Spiritual Teacher

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Teresa of Avila (1515–82) Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one’s true identity in both
Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian Spiritual Teacher, Writer

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher

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