Self Improvement Quotes - Page 5

• Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Softball, Perfection, Excellence

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• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, Thinking, Done

  Letter to Bolingbroke, 21 March 1730, in Harold Williams (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift' vol. 3 (1963) p. 382

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  I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

  Cary Grant

  Writing, Self Help, Wanted

  "Quotable Cary". www.pbs.org. May 25, 2005.

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• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Business, World, Self Help

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• Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive Change, Clear, Very Positive

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market”, p.128, Vanguard Press

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• Self improvement is masturbation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Cynical, Development

  Chuck Palahniuk (2014). “Beautiful You: A Novel”, p.199, Anchor

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• He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Duty, Aim

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.484, tredition

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• Being good enough never is.

  Debbi Fields

  Good Enough, Be Good, Improvement

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• It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Important, Arms

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• If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

  Michael Arndt

  Way, Knows, Ifs

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• We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2015

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Philosophy, Practice

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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