I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.
Being good enough never is.
Self improvement is masturbation...
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.
If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.
Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
Success is the potential destiny of all created things
The past is dead except for the life you give it
The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra
The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
You are not free until your past has no effect on your future
Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you
If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.
There's always room for improvement.
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
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.
Who you think you are is only a thought.
We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible
Done is better than perfect.
Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it
Be the best at what you do
To be a great leader, you must be a great listener
It is important in life to turn adversity to success
Talent comes from experience and failure
Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it
Look for the best in people to build a fantastic team
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
Love is energy of life.
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?
The things which hurt, instruct.
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
You cannot fix what you will not face.
Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
God has entrusted me with myself.
You build a successful life a day at a time.
We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.
Just a few daily disciplines make a big difference
What you become directly influences what you get.
Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for
Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.