Self Improvement Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

  Claudius

  Motivational, Public Speaking, Knows

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• When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

  Myles Munroe

  People, Asks, Improvement

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• When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Desire, Improvement, Seems

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mind, Firsts, Problem

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Mean, Good Relationship

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• People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

  Jean Paul

  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Jobs, Mean

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• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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• Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

  Gary Zukav

  Thinking, Matter, Steps

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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