New self and personal development quotes added 28 April, 2012
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Osho
One of my great passions in life is seeking out women who live out loud — the brave and daring dames who connect deep to their yearning and purpose, shunning paychecks and predictability, courageously leaping into the abyss to make their dreams reality.
Giselle Fernandez
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
Gandhi
Man's main task is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
You’re always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You’ve got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can’t keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you’ve got to reach for a different thought.
Abraham-Hicks, from the workshop in Tampa, FL on Saturday, December 6, 2003
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
Buddha
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." I choose to remain an expectant observer, listener, sensor.
Annie Zalezsak
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Gandhi
Never ever think your life is over, but know that each day, each moment, is another beginning, another chance to re-create yourself anew.
Neale Donald Walsch
Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.
Abraham-Hicks
The process of self-development can be described as the stripping away of layer after layer of all that is false.
The Daily Guru
Self-knowledge is for the purpose of contributing.
Alene Moris
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Zen proverb (see more Zen proverbs)
The teacher is within!
from Success is the Quality of Your Journey, by Jennifer James
A saying by Lao Tzu goes something like this: First we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then our world – in that order! Most of us go about that process quite backward, first jumping into the world and bringing our messy, unresolved issues with us. The attempt to do anything significant in the world before we have been deeply changed ourselves is a way to avoid real change. Good intention counts for very little in the mythic journey! Doing our own work first leads to our true and unique participation in the world we wish to serve.
from The Inspired Heart, p134-135, by Jerry Wennstrom
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H Maslow (1908-1970) American psychologist
Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.
from Real Magic by Wayne Dyer (about Wayne Dyer)
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English novelist
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.
Beauty Tips, by Audrey Hepburn
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German playwright
Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
Anthony Robbins (about Anthony Robbins)
A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L Evans
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S Buck (1892-1973) American writer
Be very thankful you can grow regardless of any physical, mental, emotional or financial situation.
The Daily Guru
I don't like work… but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad
A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American entrepreneur
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb (see more Hindu proverbs)
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus (460-370 BC) Greek philosopher
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Og Mandino (see works by Og Mandino)
The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.
from Passionate Presence, p165, by Catherine Ingram (about Catherine Ingram)
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Charles Gordy
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz (1920-) American psychiatrist
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.
Norvin McGranahan
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Morris Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist
Let’s honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us. Let’s consider our failings to be gifts, and share them humbly with others. Let the cracks in our perfect facades let in light and air so that new life can grow through them.
Molly Gordon
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist
Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p26), by John O’Donohue
It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis
Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
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