Self Improvement Quotes - Page 17

• No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

  Amar Bose

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Success, Hope

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• Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Business Success, Four

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• To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 19, 2015

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• Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Success, Business

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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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  The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Failure, Understanding

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Single, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Strong, Business

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• Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Real

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• I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Running, Business

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.100, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Jun 07, 2016

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• Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Fire

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. March 21, 2004.

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• 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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• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Encouraging, Meaningful, Courage

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• Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Change, Inspiring, Tasks

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• What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

  Louis Mann

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is a promise; fulfill it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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