Self Improvement Quotes - Page 15

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

  Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15

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• If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

  Lyall Watson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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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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• It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Change, Intelligence

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Inspiration

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

  T. H. White

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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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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• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Justice, Feminist

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• When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from May 19, 2010

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• When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

  Paul Allen

  Believe, Media, Organization

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• If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.

  Jack Canfield

  Spiritual, Moving, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 17, 2012

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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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• After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Financial Goals, Long

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from May 01, 2016

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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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• 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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