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Self-Improvement Quotes

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When you are too busy for friends, you are too busy.

When people get in the habit of working on personal goals, they will automatically work on company goals.

What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don’t need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.

– Doris Lessing

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

– Bernard of Clairvaux

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

We’ve been working on the basics because, basically, we’ve been having trouble with the basics.

What are you doing with the handful of years you possess between the great bookends of mystery?

We shall not cease from exploring, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

– John Roger & Peter McWilliams

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

– Peter F. Drucker

We must always be reaching toward our potential, not just our goals.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world is accomplished without passion.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

– John McCain

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

– Benjamin Franklin

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

– Albert Schweitzer

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

– Ronald E. Osborn

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

– Elie Wiesel

Trying, even though you fail, breeds learning; wishing you had tried only breeds discontent.

True health insurance is not what one carries on a plastic card, but what one does for oneself.

– Lawrence Power, MD

To change the situation, we have to first change ourselves. To change ourselves effectively, we have to first change our perceptions.

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Though they sound simple, the basic steps to knowing yourself are tough: Seek out feedback from others, reflect on what you’re doing (especially when things go wrong), be honest with yourself about yourself, and don’t let success go to your head.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

– Kenneth Blanchard

There is no greater challenge than to surpass yourself.

There are only two things you “HAVE TO” do in life. You “HAVE TO” die. You “HAVE TO” live until you die. You make up all the rest.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word “career” comes from the French word carriere, which originally meant “a racing course” and is related to the word “careen.” As a verb, it means “to move at full speed.”

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

– Dolly Parton

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