Quotes on Personal Development

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.