Personal Development Quotes

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." "To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often." "Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality." "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." "Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny." "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." "Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong." "We fear the future because we are wasting today." "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." "?Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." "Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you." "Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self." "Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things." "We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved." "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." "Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors." "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."