Self development. Change. Improvement. You have
the power to be whatever you want to be. From the day you are born until the
day you die. Your destiny is always in the palm of your hands. It’s always one
breath away, one thought away, but it is always, always, there. You always
know who you really are and what you really want.
Self development starts from your mind. Your thoughts, your ideas, your opinions are
what shape you and make you into what you are. This is your battleground. This
is where you must focus if you want to change your life. If you want to see
your dreams come true and it all starts with a spark. In my journey this spark
has always been quotes from great people in the past that went through all the
hurdles of life, but came out victorious.
These are 50 of my favorite self development
quotes that have helped me transform my life and I’m confident they will help
you transform yours as well.
50 Inspiring Self
Development Quotes:
1. Knowing others is
intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu
2. What ever the mind of
man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
3. What we think, we
become. - Buddha
4. Exert your talents,
and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the
world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson
5. If you want more, you
have to require more from yourself. - Dr Phil
6. When we are no longer
able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor
E Frankl
7. Let him who would move
the world first move himself. – Socrates
8. Part of abandoning the
all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound
to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we
learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their
long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback it is not the end of
the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you. - Jillian
Michaels
9. What we fear doing
most is usually what we most need to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.
What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas,
but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if
you are already where you want to be.-Russell Simmons
11.
Rule your mind or It will rule you. - Buddha
12.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit. Will Durant
13.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of
being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
– Abraham H Maslow
14.
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability
to triumph begins with you. Always. - Oprah Winfrey
15.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how - Fredrick
Nietzsche
16.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to
remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
17.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected
yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
18.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
19.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You
can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your
own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.
– Dr. Seuss
20.
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
21.
You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want
it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is. - Esther & Jerry
Hicks
22.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of
you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own
dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim
of needless suffering. - Don Miguel Ruiz
23.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is
our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our
freedom. Viktor Frankl
24.
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and
unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it
comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no
cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours
when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in
your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave
space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! - Og Mandino
25.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison
26.
In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we
possess. - The Dalai Lama
27.
So many people will tell you no, and you need to find something
you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them watch me. Learn to
take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to
give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn. – Charlotte
Eriksson
28.
If you don't build your dream,someone will hire you to build
theirs.
29.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us. - Helen Keller
30.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts. - Winston S. Churchill
31.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always
choose how we respond to them. - Epictetus
32.
We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will
shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your
higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it. - Robin
Sharma
33.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish
nothing in life. -Muhammad Ali
34.
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare
themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with
their past accomplishments and future potential. - Brian Tracy
35.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive.
When you’re positive, good things happen.- Deep Roy
36.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.- Mark Twain
37.
If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the
ordinary do-and don’t do it. –Tommy Newberry
38.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it - Edith Wharto
39.
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that
occurs in your life is the result of your own making. - Stephen
Richards
40.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure
rate. - Thomas Watson
41.
The process of self-development can be described as the
stripping away of layer after layer of all that is false. - The Daily
Guru
42.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the
evolution of your consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle
43.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful
and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by
exercising himself in right thinking.-James Allen
44.
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear,
unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing
something.
45.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your
thoughts about it. - Eckhart Tolle
46.
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
47.
The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring
person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just
that. – Kristi Bowman
48.
The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the
stronger it gets and the more it can expand. – Idowu Koyenikan
49.
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of
giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die – although
it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born. - Erich
Fromm
50.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and
suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi
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