Self Improvement Quotes - Page 21

• It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Education, Hope, New York

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• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.  The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.  Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Fun, Choices

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• While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort.  No one leads well without paying the price of discipline.  As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Exercise, Discipline

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• Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

  Myles Munroe

  Your Future, Within You, Trapped

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• Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

  Gary Crowley

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

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• You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

  Myles Munroe

  Past, Your Future, Effects

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• The past is dead except for the life you give it

  Myles Munroe

  Past, Giving, Improvement

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• Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you

  Myles Munroe

  Destiny, Up To You, Your Future

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• We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

  Myles Munroe

  Impact, Differences, Giving

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• Success is the potential destiny of all created things

  Myles Munroe

  Destiny, Improvement

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• You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unhappy, May, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 13, 2011

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• It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, People, Facts

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• Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

  Ben Macintyre

  Falling In Love, Educational, Reading

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

  Anne Robinson

  Improvement, Should, Despise

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• To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Years

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• The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

  Matthew Syed

  Motivational, Sports, Practice

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• There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

  Robert Breault

  Self, Improvement, Like You

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• The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

  Paul Brunton

  Self, Ego, Able

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• Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self, Improvement, Self Knowledge

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

  Tom Peters

  Self Discipline, Improvement, Insignificant

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• Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Motivational, Change

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• Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

  Lucy Hale

  Life, Motivational, Becoming

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• The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Socialist Countries, Self

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Stupid, Men, Self

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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