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Self Improvement Quotes

"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do."
Fernando Pessoa
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live"
Gustave Flaubert
"We are natural learners. Learning is our default state."
Howard Gardner
"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
Immanuel Kant
"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not."
Isabel Allende
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him"
John Locke
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"
Leo Tolstoy
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie
"The beginning is always today"
Mary Shelley
"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning"
Michel Foucault
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn"
Miguel de Cervantes
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds"
Ray Bradbury
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body"
Seneca
"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them"
Shonda Rhimes
"You want to be a surgeon? Earn it. Stop being a lump on a log. Do something"
Shonda Rhimes