Self Improvement Quotes - Page 25

• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Analysis, Lasts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Failure, Fall

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.53, Macmillan

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• To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Business, Inspiration, Insperational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Stress

  Suze Orman (2006). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, p.41, Crown Business

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• Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Home

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

  Jean Paul

  Courage, Conquer, Danger

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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• Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

  Zig Ziglar

  Mind, Doe, Wonderful

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• Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Desire, Increase

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.163

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• We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Today, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• God has entrusted me with myself.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Improvement

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• Kind words are the music of the world.

  Frederick William Faber

  Inspirational, Relationship, Music

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.32

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• They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Girl, Health

  Louise L. Hay (1984). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Loss, Desire

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• Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Jobs, Husband

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Growth, Different

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• Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.

  Stuart Wilde

  Business, Knowledge, Selling Things

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.105, Hay House, Inc

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