Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

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"All experience is an arch to build upon"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

Ray Kroc

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing; they themselves must, in the very nature of things, be their own best helpers"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

Arundhati Roy

"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Ayrton Senna

"Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement"

Golda Meir, Leader

Golda Meir

"You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God!"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself"

Betty Friedan, Activist

Betty Friedan

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Testing oneself is best when done alone"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it"

John Lubbock, Statesman

John Lubbock

"As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"The less I needed, the better I felt"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause, if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

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