Quotes on Self Development

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

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.

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

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

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.