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Self-Improvement Quotes
Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
— Laozi
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
— Laozi
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
— Jim Rohn
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
— Rumi
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
— Plutarch
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
— Sun Tzu
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?