Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Gentleman Self-control Detachment A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Freedom Detachment Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

Attachment Detachment Happiness Sorrow He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

Immortality Inner Peace Detachment Self-Mastery That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Swami Vivekananda

Detachment Focus Simplicity The work is the work. The work is not me.

Frank Ocean

Transformation Perspective Simplicity Detachment He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Mark Twain

Detachment Relaxation Confidence Performance I reminded myself that the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.

Abdul Kalam

Giving Detachment Ownership Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C. S. Lewis

Emotion Detachment Identity Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Eckhart Tolle

Creation Detachment Authorship Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

David Bowie