Personal Development Quotes

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." "If you don't like yourself, you're not going to be able to like other people" "The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves" "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul" "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man" "One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered" "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" "It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable." "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be" "Optimism is a strategy for making a better future." "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Through others we become ourselves" "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work" "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is" "Happiness is an achievement brought about by the inner productiveness of man and it is a state of being which can be maintained only as long as our inner productiveness isn’t dead" "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." "We are natural learners. Learning is our default state."