Self Improvement Quotes - Page 5

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

You build a successful life a day at a time.