Self Development Quotes - Page 2

• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• Take what's useful, discard what is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

  Plato

  Pick Me Up, Victory, Development And Growth

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Strength, Exercise, Development And Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

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• Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

  Al Duncan

  Moving Forward, Self, Achievement

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• When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

  Pablo Picasso

  Yoga, Self, Rays

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Future, Self

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 10, 2012

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• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Karma, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Strength, Retirement

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• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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