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"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick"
William James, Philosopher
"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
"Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
"There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for"
Socrates, Philosopher
"But until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"Internal victories precede external victories"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"You can't change the fruit without changing the root"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"It all has to come from inside, though, I guess"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me"
Helen Keller, Author
"Help thyself and Heaven will help thee"
Jean de La Fontaine, Poet
"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled"
Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections"
Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience"
Henry Miller, Writer
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy, but the worst habit you could possibly have"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
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