Self Improvement Quotes - Page 16

• Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Hate, Hatred

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

  Robert Holden

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Amount

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.55, Hay House, Inc

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

  Florence King

  Life, Book, Men

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

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• Our intention creates our reality.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

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• Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Success, Business, Responsibility

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• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Use, Treasure, Riches

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Eggs, Vaccines, Business Success

  "James Watt".

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Country, Encouragement

  Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

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• In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

  William J. Clinton

  Motivational, Business, Information

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.514, Best Books on

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• I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mistake, Inspirational Celebrity, Minutes

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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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• Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Happiness, Wise

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 05, 2012

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 6, 2016

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• There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Spiritual, Business

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Jul 16, 2013

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• What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

  Wangari Maathai

  Peace, Self, People

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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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• National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Pride, Self

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty”, Prickly Pear (UK)

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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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• No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

  Larry McMurtry

  Money, Car, Common

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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