Self Improvement Quotes - Page 13

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Motivational, Reading

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.138, University of Missouri Press

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• Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Witty

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• If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  George Matthew Adams

  Success, Encouragement, Character

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Understanding, Important

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• Our intention creates our reality.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

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• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Noble, May

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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Public Speaking, Orators, Speaking In Public

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Business

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• People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Women, I Hate You, Compassion

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• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

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• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

  Cato the Elder

  Communication, Language, Public Speaking

  Quoted in Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica

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• Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Bmw

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• There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Self, Always Trying, Example

  "Mindy Kaling Makes Her Vogue Debut, Proudly Tells the Magazine: 'I Don't Want to Be Skinny'" by Zach Johnson, www.eonline.com. March 27, 2014.

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

  Anne Frank

  Fall, New Day, Mind

  Anne Frank (1972). “Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

  Harriet Lerner

  Lonely, Self, Knows

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Self, Young

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.14, Melville House

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  Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Asking

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• Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hard Work

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