Personal Growth Quotes

"Where id was, there ego shall be." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet." "Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation." "Love and work... work and love, that's all there is." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "I am a part of everything that I have read." "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."