Self Improvement Quotes - Page 31

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

When you establish peace, when you etablish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world.

Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

You can build your strength, If you read enough books!

People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mind can engage in reflective thought and selectively determine how to organize the elements of perception. We can consciously elect to depart from stereotypical behavior and transcend the heretofore-established biological behavioral preferences. People can elect to hold prejudices or not, can make rational or irrational decisions to engage in war or not, and can take deliberate steps to arrest destruction of the ecosystem or not. Holding ourselves in check by placing a brake upon the human propensity to strike out in instinctual behavior is a distinct human quality. Restraint from instant gratification of strong impulses represents a unique human behavior trait. By intentionally refraining from committing an instinctual action, humankind asserts its sovereignty from its biological constitution. Unbound from the limitations of its biological nature, a person can employ the mind to devise alternative behavioral choices and the results of numerous behavioral choices culminate to provide a person with a sophisticated definition of the self.

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.

There is nothing better for us to do than to take ourselves as we find ourselves and make the best of ourselves. If I find myself, as I did, the daughter of an artist who has left me with broadmindedness and a conveniently strong character to resist temptation, I take myself from there and accomplish what I can… I do not even deserve praise for doing my best, for that is my duty and I deserve to be blamed for not doing my best.

The whole universe wants to contribute toyou. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire—but you don’t ask.

So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.

One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can’t function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

Everything you seek is achieved from within not without. You know what is right and what is wrong for you because you feel it.

... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.

If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs—and becomes automatic—it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want.

Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.

Creation, or that of knowledge from within, is in knowing that "you are" And because you are, you may consistently create that which you desire. For it is in the listening of your heart, that you will know what to create in conjunction with our higher power. Know this, do this, be this presence of love from within your heart to find the way to your true self.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

What crucial conversations need to be readdressed in your personal and professional relationships in order for you to gain peace, clarity, and resolution? Create the space in your life to readdress what needs to be given hope for healing.

Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Every day I wake up and ask myself, ‘How can I accept myself and others more fully?

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.

If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.

Reconciling is about cleaning out your psychic closet. Do you have unresolved issues which are draining your reserves, causing hurt feelings, filling you with regret, or taxing your tenacity? Reconciling can allow you to move forward with acceptance and surrender, rather than berating yourself for what cannot be changed. Are you ready to enjoy peace?

When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating.

Wherever problem persist, wisdom is lacking. There is no problem anywhere except wisdom problem. Wisdom provides solutions where there is complications.

The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man.

When you compete against yourself, you both win.

You get a: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned too. Raise yourself to excellence.

How can we stop learning, if we still have breath?

It's all about how you feel, not how you look

Failures can be called ‘strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

To heal physically, one must heal the emotional aspect of the issue first or it will resurface in another way.

Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind.

Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.

Acceptance is the first step in the process of change. Why? Because it gives us something solid to stand on as we reach for more.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.

In this room I grew.So many lessons I learnedOpportunities I gainedCriticisms I gracefully enduredIn this room, I made my mark".

Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

Call attention to your strengths instead of pointing out your weaknesses.

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

The only way to become successful at anything is by overcoming and not giving up