Self Improvement Quotes - Page 15

• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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• Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

  David Bach

  Success, Education, Money

  FaceBook post by David Bach from Dec 10, 2010

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• The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

  John Redwood

  Self, Library, Improvement

  "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

  Suze Orman

  Life, Success, Business

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• Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

  Win Ng

  Success, Business, Ideas

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• Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Success, Leadership, Business

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• The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, People

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• Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.216, Shambhala Publications

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• Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Balance, Riches

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

  Herbert Benson

  Healing, Health, People

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• Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

  Herbert Benson

  Pain, Memories, Stress

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• Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Healing, Men

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• Music's the medicine of the mind.

  John A. Logan

  Music, Health, Healing

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• In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Love, Pain, Healing

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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Power, Past

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• I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Success, Business, Good Luck

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• I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Change, Success, Business

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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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• Talent comes from experience and failure

  Richard Branson

  Improvement, Talent

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• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

  Cyril Connolly

  Motivational, Disappointment, Loss

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Motivational, Loss, Exercise

  Ann Louise Gittleman (2016). “The New Fat Flush Plan”, p.133, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

  Socrates

  Funny Inspirational, Healing, Health

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

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