Inspiring Quotes for Wellness Entrepreneurs and Coaches

1. "Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happens but seldom.” - Meik Wiking

2. “Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” - Henry David Thoreau

3. “Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.” - Albert Einstein

4. "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you." - Maya Angelou

5. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.” - The Rock

6. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

7. "You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” - Octavia Butler

8. “Practice is essential, perfection is not. Through repetition, the magic that is forced to rise is an alchemical precept.” - Sharon Gannon

9. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu

10. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

11. “Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.“ - St. Francis de Sales

12. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

13. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” - Pablo Picasso

14. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” - Louisa May Alcott

15. "The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous." - Emile Zola

16. "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

17. "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

18. “To write is human, to receive a letter: Divine!” - Susan Lendroth

19. “I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.” ​- Oscar Wilde

20. "I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me.” - Taylor Swift, “New Romantics”

21. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” - Socrates

22. “Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?” - Salvador Dalí

23. “Practice becomes firmly established when it has been cultivated uninterruptedly and with devotion over a long period of time.” - Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1.14

24. “We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves” - Erich Schiffman

25. “Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it's stupid.” - Albert Einstein

26. You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Mary Oliver, from “Wild Geese”

27. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” - Eckhart Tolle

28. "Don't wait for inspiration, it comes while working." - Henri Matisse

29. "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt" - Sylvia Plath

30. "There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." - Jane Austen

31. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” - Leo Babauta

32. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” - Bruce Lee

33. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” - Anne Lamott

34. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” - Ella Fitzgerald

35. “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” - Plato

36. “Individuality is the most important thing you can develop as an artist.” - Kate Bush

37. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” - Maya Angelou

38. “To create one’s own world takes courage—and endless refinement of the soul.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

39. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. Each line, each stroke, is a step closer to who I am.” - Audre Lorde

40. “Burnout begins where capacity ends. Be brave enough to assess what’s realistic.” - Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

41. "If I had my life to live over… I would have waxed less and listened more… I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded… I would have sat cross-legged on the lawn with my children and never worried about grass stains... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it... and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it." - Erma Bombeck

42. "When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling." - Shonda Rhimes

43. “Begin with the end in mind.” - Stephen Covey

44. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel

45. “We must be otherworldly brave. We must be the kind of courageous that legends are made of.” - Meggan Watterson

46. “Listening is an act of love. It is an act of recognition and affirmation that says, 'I see you, I hear you, and you matter.'” - bell hooks

47. “I dwell in possibility.” - Emily Dickinson

48. "Teaching is the greatest act of optimism." - Colleen Wilcox

49. "It is not the big things that add up in the end; it’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary." - Audre Lorde

50. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” - Maya Angelou

51. "Consistency is the playground of mastery.” - Robin Sharma

52. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

53. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anaïs Nin

54. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates

55. "The first step in crafting the life you want is to ditch the idea of balance. Embrace priorities instead." - Jonathan Fields

56. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel

57. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy.” - Brené Brown

58. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” - Barack Obama

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