Self Improvement Quotes - Page 27

• I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

  Les Brown

  Adversity, Bounce, I Can

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• Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Race

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Writing, Self, Improvement

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• The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

  Paul Theroux

  Self, Vanishing, Improvement

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Home, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

  Penney Peirce

  Real, Self, Lasting Change

  Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciate, Looks, Analyzing

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• Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

  "Author Brené Brown Discusses Embracing Our Ordinariness". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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• There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

  Stuart Wilde

  Success, Business, Energy

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• I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Running, Business

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. December 28, 2006.

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• It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

  Alan Greenspan

  Life, Success, Baseball

  "Maintaining Economic Vitality". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, www.federalreserve.gov. September 8, 1999.

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• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

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• Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Money, Business

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• True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Health, Giving

  Brandon Bays (2010). “Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential”, p.89, New World Library

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• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

  Sophocles

  Soul, Glory, Be Good

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• Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

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• It is important in life to turn adversity to success

  Richard Branson

  Adversity, Important, Turns

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• Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Kind, Strategy

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• To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

  Richard Branson

  Leader, Listeners, Improvement

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• Be the best at what you do

  Richard Branson

  Improvement, Being The Best

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• Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

  Richard Branson

  Improvement, Screws

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• When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Expectations, Unhappy

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• Fear overrides all rational thinking

  Greg Secker

  Thinking, Rational, Rational Thinking

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