You can’t teach a person anything, you can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
I firmly believe that self-reflection is the most powerful force for personal development.
Knowledge and insights from books can provide valuable impulses to look at the world with different eyes. Occasionally, even a single quote can carry this insight and move worlds.
Quotes on personal development from national and international sources
To double your income, triple your investment in. “To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.
Robin Sharma, Canadian author
Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou, American writer
If you don’t grow, you shrink yourself.
Teresa of Ávila
The intention is good, but the fulfillment is difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
Every day is a new chance to do what you want.
Friedrich Schiller, German poet
With enough self-discipline, you can achieve almost anything.
Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Edward Buffett, major American investor
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown, American motivational speaker
When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
Karen E. Quinones Miller, American journalist
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays, American pastor
There is life before death.
Drafi Deutscher, German singer
If you want to get to the source, you have to swim against the current.
Chinese wisdom
Philip Rosenthal,He who stops being better stops being good.
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
Rick Warren, American bestselling author
I can because I want what I need.
Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
It is never too late to be what you might.
George Eliot, English writer
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
Steve Maraboli, American
Author
Nothing great was ever achieved without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American
Philosopher
Learn from the mistakes of others — you can live long enough to make them all yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
‘ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird, American
Basketball player
ConfuciusThe will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
If there is no struggle there is no progress. …Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass, American writer
The worst way you can choose is not to choose one.
Frederick II, King of Prussia
You can understand life backwards; you have to live it forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish
Philosopher
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
Perfection is an ideal, and perfection itself is unattainable.
Pearl S. Buck, American
Writer
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Chinese wisdom
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult. – Marquise du Deffand Have the courage to take the first step today!
Marie de Vichy Chamrond du Deffand, French sallonière
We cannot become what we need to be if we remain what we are.
Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
Author
Do not strive to be successful, but to be of value.
Albert Einstein, German physicist
The pinnacle of happiness is when a person is ready to be who they are.
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch
Theologian
Tonight I decided I want to devote a portion of the time and effort needed to eventually earn the right to watch you get dressed in the morning.
Kevin Ngo, American author
You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter…and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.
Robert Tew, American author
Only the thinking person experiences life, it passes by the thoughtless.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, German writer
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is pure perseverance.
Amelia Earhart, American airline pilot
A ship is always safe on the coast, but that’s not what it was built for.
Albert Einstein, German physicist
Do your best until you know better. As soon as you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou, American writer
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There are two ways to spread light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton, American writer
Time does not transform us, it only unfolds us.
Max R. Frisch, Swiss writer
You have the chance today to shape your future tomorrow.
Ken Poirot, American author
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is some truth or good in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, just let them roll off you.
Hillary Clinton, American politician
If you look into your own heart and find nothing wrong there, what do you have to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius
In a year’s time, you’ll wish you’d started today.
Karen Lamb, American writer
If you say a, you don’t have to say b. He can also recognize that a was wrong.
Bertold Brecht, German poet
You can waste your life drawing boundaries. Or you can spend your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes
American screenwriter
Just don’t give up on doing what you really want to do. As long as you find love and inspiration, I don’t think anything can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
Realizing that you are not where you want to be is the starting point for changing your life.
Deborah Day, Canadian
Film director
We need to use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
Dissatisfaction is the first step to success.
Oskar Wilde, Irish writer
You are not only responsible for what you do, but also for what you don’t do.
Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, German physicist
The slowest person who doesn’t lose sight of his goal still walks faster than the one who wanders around without a goal.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German poet
If you are sitting, then only sit; if you are standing, then only stand. Above all, don’t wobble.
Chinese proverb
Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.
Fritz Perls, American psychiatrist
Not just roses, the sky also has thorns.
Friedrich Schiller, German poet
Follow your deepest convictions and stay strong.
William Thackeray, British writer
It’s amazing what you can learn if you want to. Every habit can be changed.
Salman Rushdie, Indian-British writer
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael J. Bobak, Artist
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Steven Covey, American author
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Carld Bard, German theologian
It is more important to do something on a small scale than to talk about it on a large scale.
Willy Brandt, fourth Chancellor of the FRG
The path to your goal begins the day you take full responsibility for your life.
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Alan Kay, American computer scientist
he future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo, French writer
Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.
George Addair
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one’s own power.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, German writer
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.
Paul Coelho, Spanish writer
Anyone who rests on their laurels is wearing them in the wrong place.
Mao Zedong, Chinese politician
The greatest wisdom is of no use to you if you don’t live it.
Hans Kruppa, German poet