Self Development Quotes - Page 5

• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Strong, Attitude

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

  David J. Schwartz

  Religious, Writing, Self

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.17, Random House

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• For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Self, Ideas, Endurance

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.87, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• You're always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You've got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can't keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you've got to reach for a different thought.

  Esther Hicks

  Giving, Perfect, Different

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• A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'.

  Jacob Needleman

  Buddhist, Real, Mean

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• When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.

  Mark Epstein

  Happiness, Letting Go, Buddhism

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• Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Self, Alive

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