Self Improvement Quotes - Page 18

• Joy comes from using your potential.

  William Schutz

  Motivational, Happiness, Joy

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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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• We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Attitude, Men, Mirrors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Done is better than perfect.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfect, Perfection, Done

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf

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• Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Success, Lying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 14, 2010

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Journey, Long, Lapses

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• You can't have a better tomorrow if
  you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

  Charles Kettering

  Letting Go, Time, Attitude

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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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• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Business, Knowledge

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• It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Opportunity

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• Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

  William Hazlitt

  Success, Business, Likes

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• There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Work

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Retirement, Business

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• To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Business

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1350, Ravenio Books

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• Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

  Charles J. Givens

  Inspirational, Motivation, Loss

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• The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Positive, Success, Business

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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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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• WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Block, Eye

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, New York, Business

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