Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

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"The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Nothing external to you has any power over you"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear, has not learned the secret of life"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Freedom is from within"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from your dreams what you lack"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability"

John Wooden, Coach

John Wooden

"In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"Change your thoughts and you change your world"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"You are not nor ever will be better than anyone else besides the person you are now"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Bruce Lee

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside!"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome"

Golda Meir, Leader

Golda Meir

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"The authentic self is the soul made visable"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

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