Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Avoidance Quotes

Avoidance Challenge Intellectual Struggle I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway

Avoidance Courage Honesty Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Dale Carnegie

American writer and lecturer

Avoidance Neurosis Suffering Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

Avoidance Human Nature Truth Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Avoidance Evil Work Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist

Avoidance Critique Perspective I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian

Avoidance Caution Danger Innocence Vulnerability The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Chanakya

Hindu statesman and philosopher

Avoidance Human Condition Self Reflection Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher

Avoidance Inaction Poor Time Management Problem Solving Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

American automobile manufacturer

Avoidance Emotional Pain Energy Unresolved Trauma There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Eckhart Tolle

Avoidance Effort Human Interaction Prayer It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

C. S. Lewis