Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

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"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"My difficulties belong to me!"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"You can always become better"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

Tiger Woods

"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy"

Reba McEntire, Musician

Reba McEntire

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible"

Lana Turner, Actress

Lana Turner

"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals"

James Naismith, Inventor

James Naismith

"You can't control how other people behave. You can only control how you react to it"

Chris Pine, Actor

Chris Pine

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"The way we see the problem is the problem"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

W. Clement Stone

"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"My goal is to be better than yesterday"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

Mat Fraser

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