Quotes on Personal Development

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.