Personalgrowth Quotes

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." "The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats." "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." "It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home." "We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done." "When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself." "Never explain. Your friends won’t need it. And haters will continue to hate (because they also hate themselves)." "Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." "The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality." "Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear."