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Quotes about Personal Growth
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
~ Socrates
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
~ Marquise du Deffrand
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
~ B. R. Haydon
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
~ Thomas Sprat
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness it's own light and it's own mirror.
~ Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
~ Immanuel Kent
Many only learn in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
~ Will Rogers
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
~ Sir J. Stephen
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
~ Berthold Auerbach
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
~ Sir William Jones
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from diggin.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.
~ Hitopadesa
Practice in yourself little things, and thence proceed to greater.
~ Epictetus
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
~ Saint Augustine
Live up to the best that is in you: live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
~ Henry W. Longfellow
The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~ Socrates
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
~ Cicero
The only journey is the journey within.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
~ Menander
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
~ Juvenal
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
~ Abd-el-Kadar
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
~ Lord Chesterfield
He that will not reflect is a ruined man.
~ Asian proverb
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
~ Doug Firebaugh
God ever works with those who work with will.
~ Aeschylus
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing youself is the beginning of all widsom.
~ Aristotle
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
~ Lord Chesterfield
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamilton
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
~ Hecato
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
~ Plato
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
~ Herbert Otto
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
~ Marquise du Deffrand
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you much become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
~ Brian Tracy
No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.
~ Sean Gregory Derrick
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
~ C. R. Lawton
You cannot expect yo achieve new goals or more beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
~ Les Brown
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
~ Anthony Robbins
We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
~ Max Depree
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
~ Gandhi
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~ Alexis Carrel
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.
~ Buddha
Begin to see yourself as a sould with a body rather than a body with a soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
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