PersonalDevelopment quotes

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.