Focus

Focus is about where we place our attention. How we look, what lens we look through, where we look, and what we choose to look at has a huge impact on what we see. Where we focus our attention significantly changes our quality of life. If you are looking for things to be grateful for, you will be far happier than when you are running the cranky side of “ain’t it awful.”

What we choose to focus on is about the intention of how we want to live our life. If you want to be feel victimized, then all you have to focus on are all the wrongs that are done. If you go looking for them, you can find them. If you want to feel strong and uplifted, then you have to purposely go looking for your strengths and remember your successes. It is far easier to react than it is to focus and have an intent of looking for the best in people and the best in life, and the best in yourself. But it can happen. You can do it.

Enjoy the following inspirational quotes on Focus.

Hope springs forth from new dreams as last year’s unfulfilled ones fade away. But this isn’t about defeat, for you don’t have the luxury of focusing your attention on something that didn’t reach fruition. Forget about the past; look ahead toward a successful future. Although it may take a while yet for you to feel as if you are gaining ground again, don’t lose sight of the prize.

Rick Levine

It does seem to be true that whatever we focus on tends to increase. Have you ever noticed that if you learn a new work you suddenly hear it everywhere? Or your friend introduces you to blue lobelia and you suddenly notice it blooming all over?
Exactly why this happens is something of a mystery, but I believe it’s because everything is around us all the time. We are choosing, mostly unconsciously, to notice certain things and not others because we just cannot pay attention to everything. As we change what we pay attention to, we notice that more. Scientists have proposed that something more amazing is at work-that reality is open to the mind’s causal influence and is, in the words of David L. Cooperider, “often profoundly created through our anticipatory images, values, plans, intentions, beliefs and the like.” This suggests that we actually positive or negative imagery.
In either case, the more we are grateful, the more we will have to be grateful for. Even if nothing more or better happens, our eyes are opened to the gifts that were always there. As Susan Jeffers notes, “When we focus on abundance, our life feels abundant; when we focus on lack, our life feels lacking. It is purely a matter of focus.”
-M.J. Ryan

There are lots of magic tricks and scientific studies that prove that if we expect to see something, we will pretty much see what we expect, even if it’s not really there. The same thing happens in our lives: we see the same thing every day, and we shut off the part of ourselves that’s on the lookout for the new and interesting, so sometimes we pass it by altogether. Can you vow to see something new every day?
Addie Johnson Life is Sweet

I took classes once with a brilliant clown named Michael Fields, who told us to always look at the horizon-to get our eyes up off of the ground and put our focus far out in front of us. He meant it in the context of being on stage, but I’m sure he knew the value of this perspective shift in everyday life as well. Of course you can’t keep your eyes fixed off in the distance, you’re going to look at other things, make eye contact with a passerby, notice something shiny on the path ahead of you. But make the horizon your default position, and you will interact with the world in a different way.
-Addie Johnson

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Humor Inspirational Quotes are wonderful for creating laughter. Laughter and smiles can really help us stay alive and joyous. Humor and laughter helps us to stay young. Humor keeps our juices fresh. Humor is a terrific strategy for when you have the doldrums.

Dark humor often is used by those people who are facing death. There’s certain grist of being able to face the unknowable with grim humor.

When something uncomfortable or embarrassing happens, we can defuse it with laughter. As our population is aging, we see more and more jokes about memory and aging. Laughing in the face of aging seems to be good revenge. I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes of humor.

Originality is forgetting where you got it.
Zig Ziglar

I have to put off some things several times before they slip my mind.
-Zig Ziglar

Laugher is the lotion for the sunburns of life.
-Zig Ziglar

Every time you graduate from the school of experience, somebody thinks up a new course.

-Zig Ziglar.
Don’t expect you ‘leader-ship’ to come in if you’re unwilling to unload the cargo.

-Zig Ziglar.

Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.
-Zig Ziglar

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Beauty is to the soul as taste is to food. Beauty soothes the spirit. John Muir says that we need Beauty as much as we need bread. In the following inspirational quotes, allow their beauty to bestow its balm.

Cherish the small spots of beauty in your home and create more. Beauty is enlivening. How many times do we enjoy our houseplants or a small bouquet of flowers?

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-Emerson

You agree-I’m sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
-Agatha Christie

We come to a deep awareness that creating a beautiful life is our highest calling.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

We’re surrounded by beauty of all kinds. It can perk us up, calm us down, and even heal our bodies and souls. Getting attuned to this splendor is a great way to pass the time. It’s time to shine up your sense of wonder and see the world in a new light. Make some new discoveries, and don’t forget to pass them on through the magic of your own creativity.
-Addie Johnson

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.
-John Muir

What are your favorite forms of beauty? Make artist dates with yourself to enjoy a thing of beauty.

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Imagination is a very important function that we humans do not yet fully and completely understand. Imagination is used by athletes and musicians to perfect their performance. When we spend time imagining what it is like to attain a desire we have, we perhaps are actually tuning into the infinite and beginning the process of bringing that desired outcome to fruition.

The full reach of infinity may be beyond our imagination, but imagination itself is infinite.
–Addie Johnson

It comes to you in a dream, or from a thoughtful conversation, or just from opening up your eyes and seeing something for the first time. How sweet it is that spark of imagination.
–Addie Johnson

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination — that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
– Abraham

Everything man creates or acquires begins in the form of desire, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.
–Napoleon Hill

It does seem to be true that whatever we focus on tends to increase….Scientists have proposed that something more amazing is at work—that reality is open to the mind’s causal influence and is, in the words of David L. Cooperider, “often profoundly created through our anticipatory images, values, plans, intentions, beliefs and the like.” This suggests that we actually participate in creating what happens to us by the power of our positive or negative imagery.
–M.J. Ryan

If you have enjoyed these quotes, you might like to read this essay on imagination.

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Purpose Inspirational Quotes may inspire us to value ourselves more.  We live in times when it is easy to forget purpose, and live more in survival.  Purpose however reminds us of our True Self.  Purpose serves as a beacon calling us towards the highest and best in ourselves.

Bruce Barton’s inspirational quote on our purpose, our calling, reminds us once again of the divine spark that ignites the divine design with each of us.  Trust that very soft calling.  Your purpose never leaves.  Your purpose never dies.  The sputtering of the flame is just our own inability to see it and hear it.

Take deep breaths, listen quietly, and trust that you will receive an answer.  Let the following inspirational quotes about purpose gently breathe inside you.  Answers and more questions will follow.

“The purpose of our life is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.”

-Buckminster Fuller

“When you have a sense of your own calling you have the means to overcome obstacles and work through menial takes with a sense of purpose. You may even find the obstacles themselves, and your reaction to them are another source of satisfaction in your life. Even better, your calling will naturally incorporate the people and things that are most important to you, so you can move beyond linking your sense of well-being to how happy your mother or your spouse is. There is an infinite source of gratification right in front of your face; you just have to reach out and grab it.”

-Addie Johnson

“It may or may not lead me to someone else’s definition of success, but following my passion elicits a sense of fulfillment that can never dull.”

-Addie Johnson

“You’re ready to find your calling, something that’s fulfilling now and grows into something just as fulfilling later. Your conscious mind could never predict what that calling is and what your future life will look like. It cannot map out every step that will get you there. If you tried, your map would be by a series of to-do’s, and no matter how much imagination you put into them, there would always be something missing. So ease up on the control pedal, and feel the exhilaration of the unknown.”

“If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality – that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.”

Bruce Barton (quoted by Joe Vitale)

“Until a man is old enough to loose the idea that the purpose of life is self-entertainment, until he quits trying to entertain himself and begins trying to entertain other people, he is bound to be restless and unhappy. You must forget yourself in order to please yourself.”

-Bruce Barton, On The Up and Up, 1929

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Abundance awaits our request for it.  Many authors have written about abundance in all forms.  Here are a few wonderful inspiration quotes on abundance.

As you focus on the abundance rather than on the lack in your life, you will be designing a wonderful new blueprint for the future. This sense of fulfillment is gratitude at work, transforming your dreams into reality.

Sarah Ban Breathnach – Simple Abundance

Suspend your disbelief, Take a leap of faith. After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack.

Sarah Ban Breathnach – Simple Abundance

The last inspirational quote on abundance is motivational to me.  Who wants to hold on to misery and lack when it is possible to have the flow of prosperity and abundance?  The Law of Attraction works on the simple principle of focus.  What you focus on is what you receive.  If you focus on lack and feeling impoverished, then you receive more of the same thing.

Changing one’s focus when you are in some depleted circumstances is not easy, because our attention is on the lack.  But by telling a different story to yourself, or by using simple ideas like “won’t it be wonderful when we go on that vacation in…..,” “I’m really looking forward to a full bank account.”  “Some of the real wonderful things I have been gifted lately are”

By changing your story, and your focus, you shift your feelings to a better vibe, one in which you open your receptors to the abundance that wants to flow to you.  Check out www.ofsuccesslaw.com and click on the category of prosperity to get more information on abundance.

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Compassion is a quality we all need to practice with each other and with ourselves. Compassion is of the heart. Compassion shows caring. When we care for others, we also care for ourselves. Enjoy the quotes from quoteinspirational.com

Compassion is like sunlight, awakening and
Bringing joy to beings.
Its beauty is like a rainbow, lifting the hearts
Of all who see it.
-Tarthang Tulku

We will do what we can now with mindfulness and compassion and when we can do more we will.
-Motto of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco

It’s one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-The Dalai Lama

Many of us are afraid this expenditure of compassion will drain away our energy, deplete us for our own tasks. But the dynamics of compassion defy the ordinary laws of energy. We discover that, like Antaeus in the ancient myth, our strength is doubled by compassionate contact with the blessed earth of humanity…
“Compassion belongs to the other great band of noble virtues – tolerance, sympathy, understanding – all marching under the banner of love.”
-Bruce Barton

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Gifts Inspirational Quotes refers to giving of ourselves. Smiles, respect, caring, but most importantly our own talents are highlighted in this Gifts section of Inspirational Quotes. Inspirational Quotes help us remember what we have to offer our world. Inspirational Quotes invites us to fully pour forth our offerings.

To deny that we are gifted is, perhaps, to indulge in false humility, which allows us to shirk our responsibility to the gift. . . Gifts must be developed and passed on.
-Deena Metzger

The best gifts are wrapped in love and tied with heartstrings.
-Zig Ziglar

Be a gift-giver. To all men give charity; to yourself, respect; to a friend, your heart; to your father, deference; to your child, a good example; to a personal enemy, forgiveness; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you.
-Zig Ziglar

One of the best ways to activate our own happiness on a daily basis is by looking for simple ways to bring joy to others………Commit to giving something, no matter how small, every day for a week. A kind word, a smile to someone you know is going through hard times, an offer to mentor a young colleague, an e-mail out of the blue thanking someone for the impact he’s had on your life. Even if you don’t feel great, do it anyway for a week and notice what effect it has. Do you feel more joyful, more connected to others and happy to be alive?
This truly is one of the easiest, most powerful ways to experience joy every day.
-M. J. Ryan

Actually the giver gets a double whammy of happiness-anticipatory joy in thinking of how the person is going to feel, as well as the actual moment when he or she receives the gift. Sympathetic joy is such a wonderful feeling that you don’t even have to be there when the person receives the gift to feel great.
-M. J. Ryan

We each came to this earth with natural talents, things we’re just naturally good at. These gifts were given to you for a reason: to use and share with others. Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost. Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts and value with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.
-T. Harv Eker
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Find a related inspirational quote from T. Harv Eker in Failure Inspirational Quotes. Above, he speaks of research that shows the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost. See Strength Inspirational Quotes where we quote this research. Your strengths are important gifts. When you give, your provide Leadership. You help light up the world.

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Failure Inspirational Quotes may not seem a suitable subject for inspirational quotes. Whom do you know hasn’t experienced a form of failure? Failure is part of the human experience. It is part of learning anything new. Inspirational quotes are very helpful to remind us to choose how we look at failure. Inspirational quotes by people we know and respect gives us comfort.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a delay-not a defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
-John Maxwell

Failure is the path of least persistence.
-Zig Ziglar

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

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
-Oprah Winfrey

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it “temporary defeat.”
-Napoleon Hill

-Most people choose to play small. Why? First, because of fear. They’re scared to death of failure and they’re even more frightened of success. Second, people play small because they feel small. They feel unworthy. They don’t feel they’re good enough or important enough to make a real difference in people’s lives.

But hear this: Your life is not just about you. It’s also about contributing to others. It’s about living true to your mission and reason for being here on this earth at this time. It’s about adding your piece of the puzzle to the world. . . . .
-T Harv Ecker

Other ‘Inspirational Quotes’ topics you might enjoy are Gifts. Faith Inspirational Quotes are powerful at a time you feel failure. The Miracle Called You Inspirational Quotes reminds each of us that we were created as a miracle. Trust Yourself Inspirational Quotes will remind you to calm your inner critic which probably is very necessary when you have feelings of failure. You might enjoy the essay called Self Awareness also.

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Leadership of all kinds is needed and Inspirational Quotes about Leadership follow. Today’s inspirational quotes brought smiles. See Staubauch’s inspirational quote about leaders being like tea bags. I smiled thinking ‘the water’s hot enough’ as I read these inspirational quotes. I’m reading Life is Sweet. She ended it with an inspirational quote that seems especially fit for our inspirational quotes topic on Leadership. Leadership of this kind is vital. Show leadership today. Light up the lives around you suggested in this first inspirational quote.

The single most important action you can take when it comes to happiness is spreading it around. Happiness never decreases by being shared; in fact it often increases exponentially as it travels from one person to another. If you can light up the lives of everyone you meet, think of how many thousands of candles that will be. Think of how much lighter the world will be.
-Addie Johnson - Life is Sweet

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them
-J. Philip Everson

Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
-Art Linkletter

Leadership is the ability to persuade others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
-Max Depree

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
-Don Shula

It’s not what you know or whom you know. It’s what you are that finally counts.
Zig Ziglar

Without integrity no one listens. Without trust no one follows.
Zig Ziglar

It’s not your position in life-it’s the disposition you have which will change your position.
-Dr. David McKinley

Team-builders are the tea bags of life. They perform when the water is hot.
-Roger Staubach

Do not follow in the footsteps of the old masters, but seek what they sought.
-Basho

If you liked these inspirational quotes on leadership, you may also find the inspirational quotes on Trust very inspiring. The Character Inspirational Quotes might also have insight.

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