Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusYou don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
Colin PowellThe ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. RockefellerIf we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.
Joel OsteenIf you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon BonaparteChange is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce MeyerPractice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
EpictetusAlas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
Charles SpurgeonWhat’s dangerous is not to evolve.
Jeff BezosI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawThe question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘
Joel OsteenI never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainI created myself. I have taught myself so much.
Maya AngelouYou have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.
Clint EastwoodIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinI never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham LincolnFreedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne DyerLearning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da VinciThe idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
Frank OceanLeaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. MaxwellIt is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert HubbardI was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
Kanye WestIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
Noam ChomskySkill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John RuskinGod always wants us to be growing.
Joel OsteenTake advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim RohnMost people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Oscar WildeBe a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.
DJ KhaledThe wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
Russell M. NelsonNothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas CarlylePerfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
Joyce MeyerI think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
Jerry SeinfeldMy only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
Muhammad AliHow can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van GoghSometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint EastwoodPeople are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
PlatoThere are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.
Lando NorrisThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch SpinozaOf course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.
Greta ThunbergYou don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard BransonHow hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert CamusMy whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.
David GogginsIn difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.
Joel OsteenIf you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
John C. MaxwellYou leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.
Wayne DyerI always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
Conor McGregorI think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.
Clint EastwoodFreedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.
Jocko WillinkElegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Paulo CoelhoI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergI’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon RamsayBoot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.
David GogginsI’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David BowieQuality is not an act, it is a habit.
AristotleMy dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel OsteenDidn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.
Jocko WillinkWho you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTalent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.
AuroraThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker