Self Improvement Quotes - Page 8

Nothing is finished unless it is started. So just start where you are.

What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

All changes have their melancholy

When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.

Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.

We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves.

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us.

And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone's tasteless palates. And that doesn't mean you don't know how to say sorry; because being pro you means being pro growth and pro improvement. When I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong and I say that I'm wrong. And that's how I know I'm right!

you are not the storythey keep telling about youover and over again.you are not even the storyyou keep telling yourself.there are no linesthat can hold you.there are not enough wordsfor all the more that you are.

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

Entrepreneurs, let’s begin to turn our desire and design into reward.

GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.

Life presents innumerable possibilities for love, friendship, compassion, and self-fulfillment, but we must be willing to give in order to receive. Persistence, sacrifice, a quest for knowledge, along with acquaintance with our true self is essential in order to achieve our dreams. Panic, fear, worry, doubt, anger, and a negative attitude are the biggest impediments to self-realization. The most important battle we undertake in life is not with other people; rather it takes place in the human mind.

Self awareness is the key, and the first step in change. We cannot change our world or ourselves without the awareness of what needs to change. To shift the patterns that disempower you, you must get honest with yourself and become aware of what they are.

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and make it reality by working hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the real world, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for personal success.

Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.

Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds.

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

With conscious effort, you can be a reader.

Only a person who has already developed life within himself will be able to extend a quality life to somebody else

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

We need to see our collective mind as the vehicle that will take us to the destiny of our dreams

Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

Are there things in your life that could use a face lift? What neglected treasures could be given new life by restoring them to their former glory? When you renovate and restore, you show respect for what was and bring it back to a state of beauty, usefulness, value, or vigor.

Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed.

As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Count the cost of everything.Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourself, "What is my value?

The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom.

I am happy to have all the books I need to read.

We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.

The road to success begins with knowing what you need to know and why

There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

When you muster the courage to processes reality as it is instead of sweeping feelings or emotions under the rug, you become stronger.

Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person.

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.

Secret of success is found in your regular actions

Belief is the essential ingredient for success, thus if you believe, you can achieve, for real you will achieve.

Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on how you respond. Faith does not need your emotions to confirm what you are believing God to do in your life. We should understand what we are feeling and why we are feeling it but we should not be distracted or controlled by how we feel. Have faith.

When you care deeply about someone or something, repairs are worth your investment of time, energy, effort, heart, and resources. Whether it is to repair a broken trust or a damaged relationship, take the initiative to make it right and make it better.

Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!