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Self-Improvement Quotes

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

– Samuel Johnson

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

– John Wooden

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

– Napoleon Hill

It is not the circumstances, but what we think about them that determines our experience.

– Robert Kausen

It is not the number of hours you put in that counts, it is what you put in the number of hours.

It is not the place of your birth; it is not the color of your skin; it is the size of your hope that determines what you do with your life.

– John Johnson

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold, water becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Instruct me in judicious spending and in gratitude with no holds barred.

Improve your looks instantly — smile.

If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

– Chinese Proverb

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

– John Roger & Peter McWilliams

If you try to get everything out of life, you may wind up with nothing.

If you rest, you rust.

If you don’t have enthusiasm, you don’t have anything.

– Kemmons Wilson

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.

– Abraham Maslow

If you can ‘t be the star, for goodness sakes, don’t be the cloud.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

– Sir Thomas Aquinas

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the ax.

– Abraham Lincoln

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.

– George Bernard Shaw

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

– Henry David Thoreau

I discovered you never know yourself until you’re tested and that you don’t even know you’re being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn’t anyone giving the test except yourself.

– Marilyn French

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

– Abraham Lincoln

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

– James A. Worsham

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

– Coco Chanel

I believe the overall quality of work improves when you give people a chance to fail.

– Barry Posner, Jim Kouzes

Here’s a powerful way to pull the best performance out of yourself. Start living by the following 10 golden words: Do the most productive thing possible at every given moment.

– Tom Hopkins

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