Personal Growth Quotes - Page 19

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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• Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Attitude, Men

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

  Thales

  Life, Development, Know Yourself

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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• Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Inspirational, Voice, Folly

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Men, Study

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• Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Hate, Yoga, Breathing

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• In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Inspirational, Knowing, Mind

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• Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Inspirational, Wise, Learning

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• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Recovery, Progress

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou (p. 397), 1886.

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• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Strength, Exercise, Development And Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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

  Plato

  Pick Me Up, Victory, Development And Growth

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

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