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SELF-ENRICHMENT QUOTES
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer
be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
-Mohandis K. Gandhi
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot
change anything.
-George Bernard Shaw
The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night,
suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to
yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
-Grenville Kleiser
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness
consists in being great in little things.
-Charles Simmons
Do not attempt to do a thing unless
you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is unsure of you.
-Stewart E. White
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us
to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps
a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know
it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
-Jacob A. Riis
Energy and
persistence conquer all things.
-Benjamin Franklin
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct
result of knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
-John Wooden
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects
confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond
price.
-Coleman Cox
A wise person tells the truth one-hundred-percent of the time, while at the
same time realizing that telling the truth may at times be personally uncomfortable for ourselves or others.
-Ray
Gattavara
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Calvin Coolidge
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-Raymond Lindquist
A good man would prefer to
be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
-Sallust
In today's modern world in which
anonymity is available to many, it must be remembered that a person attempting to find the path to wisdom has no fear in accepting
responsibility for anything he/she has spoken, written, or done. Hence, there is no need to hide behind or use pen names and/or
screen names in a manner that completely shields one's true identity. If one finds the need to hide their thoughts behind
a mask, then both the intent and life path are called into question.
-Ray Gattavara
One of the
many guideposts on the path to wisdom points out that it isn't enough for an individual to become very skilled or highly knowledgable
in a specific area. In addition, one must make an effort throughout life at becoming skilled and knowledgable about as many
subjects as possible that affect the human condition.
-Ray Gattavara
The real leader has no need
to lead - he is content to point the way.
-Henry Miller
The man who fears no truths has nothing
to fear from lies.
-Thomas Jefferson
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest
drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt
from danger.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his[or
her] commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
-Vince Lombardi
Nothing
at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence
is the first requisite to great undertakings.
-Samuel Johnson
The man[or woman] with insight enough
to admit his limitations come nearest to perfection.
-Johann von Goethe
Action, not words, are
the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
-George Washington
While ethical morality cannot
be effectively legislated within most cultures, a good example, via personal behavior, can still be set by anyone interested.
-Ray Gattavara
Associate yourself with men[and women] of good quality if you esteem your reputation,
for 'tis better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-George Washington
A man should never be
ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham
Lincoln
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare
Keep your fears to yourself, but share
your courage with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances
to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
-Jean Paul Richter
He[or she] who does not need to
lie is proud of not being a liar.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Greater fulfillment and freedom
of choice in life are open to those who recognize the importance of being willing and prepared to accept the consequences
of both their decisions and behavior.
-Ray Gattavara
A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while, he[or she] knows something.
-Wilson Mizner
When we do the best we can, we never
know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
-Helen Keller
Always do right.
This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain
Maturity begins to grow when
you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
-John MacNaughton
The
very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
-Hugh Black
Try not to become a man[or woman] of success, but rather a man of value.
-Albert
Einstein
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller
It is better to suffer
wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
-Samuel Johnson
The
happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
-Marcus Aurelius
The amount of
satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait
around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
-Dr. William Menninger
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
-Eric Hoffer
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or others, in dropping it if that is what your heart
tells you.
-Carlos Castaneda
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune
that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
-Benjamin Franklin
If every
day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
-Gail Sheely
To accept
whatever comes, regardless of the circumstances, is to be unafraid.
-John Cage
If you have not
often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
-A. Neilen
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
-Henry Miller
No
man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus
Any man's life will be filled with constant
and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
-Booker T. Washington
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
-Maxwell Maltz
Many qualities
of life are lost to those that develop and adhere to a hasty lifestyle with little or no time devoted to thinking, the exercising
of patience, and internal reflection.
-Ray Gattavara
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller
Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest
gems in a useful life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner
of traveling.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not
to believe.
-Euripides
Not only is the person who asks no questions in life unwise, but the chances
are good that he/she doesn't know much either, as asking questions is one of only three ways in which we can learn anything.
-Ray Gattavara
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and
of true progress.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged
from others too.
-Anne Morrow Lindberg
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is
my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-Helen Keller
Self-image
sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
-Maxwell Maltz
The manner in which it is given
is worth more than the gift.
-Pierre Corneille
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution
of any undertaking.
-Samuel Johnson
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because
he cannot see the end from the beginning.
-E.J. Klemme
Inspirations never go in for long engagements;
they demand immediate marriage to action.
-Brendan Francis
Long experience has taught me that
to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
-Anthony Eden
Firmness of purpose is one of the most
necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze
of inconsistencies.
-Lord Chesterfield
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every
step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let
mankind not squander the natural resources and diversified species of Earth recklessly, less future generations be sadly restricted
to looking at pictures in an attempt to visualize what once was.
-Ray Gattavara
You cannot do
a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vigor is
contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
-Albert Schweitzer
To be
good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
-Mark Twain
We must
not...ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
-Marian Write Edelman
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove
that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
-Mark Rutherford
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
-William F. Scolavino
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
-William J. Johnston
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the
present courageously and constructively.
-Rollo May
If you haven't the strength to impose your
own terms upon life, you must accept the terms life offers you.
-T.S. Eliot
Hope is not a feeling
of certainity, that everything ends well. Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning.
-Vaclev Havel
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
-Clare Boothe Luce
Wisdom indicates
that it is often best not to make high-impact decisions when one is in a state of anger.
-Ray Gattavara
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The
truly wise person is color blind.
-Albert Schweitzer
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately
probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
-Jimmy Carter
A friend may well
be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is easier than you think; all
that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
-Kathleen
Norris
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
-Henry David
Thoreau
I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any
good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.
-William Penn
When you make a
mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons
of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-Hugh White
Had we lived,
I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart
of every Englishman. These rough notes...must tell the tale.
-Robert Falcon Scott
I know of no
more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort.
-Henry
David Thoreau
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
-Francois
De La Rochefoucauld
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
-Oliver Wendell
Holmes Sr.
So much has been given to me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
-Helen Keller
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in
every difficulty.
-L.P. Jacks
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave
men[and women], or they are no better than dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present
you give to yourself.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
-Diana
Schneider
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill
of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shallow men believe in luck....Strong men[and women]
believe in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success
achieved.
-Helen Keller
A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning
his life remains with himself - and he accepts that responsibility.
-Harry Browne
If a man has
a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a
talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men
ever know.
-Thomas Wolfe
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
-Sydney Smith
Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering,
and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into
the development of something that counts.
-Walter J. Johnston
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain
A happy life consists in tranquility
of mind.
-Cicero
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish...courage usually involves a highly realistic
estimate of the odds that must be faced.
-Margaret Truman
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now-always.
-Albert Schweitzer
Some people are making such thorough preparation for
rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
-William Feather
Whatever you do, you need
courage....To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness,
there can be no true joy.
-Thomas Carlyle
If only every man would make proper use of his strength
and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
-Cicero
Friendship is a strong and
habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
-Eustace Budgell
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
-Samuel
Johnson
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring
to it a sense of glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
-David Sarnoff
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their
readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
The person who makes a
success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
-Cecil
B. DeMille
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
-Katherine
Butler Hathaway
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
-Christian Bovee
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone
you meet is your mirror.
-Ken Keyes Jr.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without producing it.
-George Bernard Shaw
My country is the world,
and my religion is to do good.
-Thomas Paine
Friendship cannot always be based on length of time
known, but sometimes needs to be measured against the depth of impressions left in the shortest periods of time.
-Ray Gattavara
To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
-Sophocles
Wear
your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have
one.
-Lord Chesterfield
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions,
and not our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than
upon the terms of equality.
-Woodrow Wilson
Rudeness is the weak man's[or woman's] imitation of
strength.
-Eric Hoffer
The point...is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to
call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
-Abraham Tucker
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-Albert
Camus
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it
up again and again.
-Walter Gropius
Being solitary is being alone well...luxuriously immersed
in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others.
-Alice
Koller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein
to be content.
-Helen Keller
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies
blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
-Baltasar
Gracian
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
-Saint Francis de Sales
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
-Lord Dillon
There is no medicine like
hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
-Orison Swett Marden
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
-Thomas Fuller
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
-Louis Brandeis
Those who are quick to point out another's shortcomings often do so in an effort
to conceal their own.
-Ray Gattavara
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see
what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
-Ann Landers
To make your
children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
-John Ruskin
We must use time as a
tool, not as a couch.
-John F. Kennedy
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion,
and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
-Charles A. Hawley
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit you don't know all the answers.
-John P. Lougbrane
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate
and do it.
-Edgar Watson Howe
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become
uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
-Thomas Wolfe
I always say to myself, what is
the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
-C.W. Ceram
Happiness is
a by-product of helping others.
-Denny Miller
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has
always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
-U.S. Grant
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
-Aldous Huxley
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
-Helen
Keller
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
-James Russell Lowell
Great hopes make great men.
-LeRoy Douglas
Arriving at
one goal is the starting point to another.
-John Dewey
One unexpected, sincere, and well thought
out compliment spoken to an individual while he/she is alive is worth far more than all of the eulogies and ceremony delivered
at his/her funeral.
-Ray Gattavara
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen,
few in pursuit of the goal.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzshe
The world is divided into people who do
things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
-Dwight Morrow
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in
the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-Crowfoot
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock loud enough and long enough at the gate, you are
sure to wake up somebody.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The individual who strives to embrace wisdom
and achieves a certain depth to his/her character develops the ability to be content with where they are, and with the number
of material objects they have, but never desires to stop learning, lest they fall off the path to wisdom.
-Ray
Gattavara
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by
it.
-Abraham Lincoln
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
-Frank Kafka
It is the presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
-James Russell
Lowell
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and
suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
Sometimes men who cannot speak, can ... have a greater effect,
in the right circumstances, than the finest s[eakers. They bring only one idea, the idea of the moment, engraved in a single
phase, and they sonehow they place it on the rostrum like an inscription in big letters which all read and immediately recognize
in their own thoughts.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
Mind not only what people say, but how they say
it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will,
but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.
-Lord Chesterfield
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
-Aristotle
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
-Anthony
Storr
Our thoughts are the epochs of our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while
we were here.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
-Seneca The Younger
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Henry David Thoreau
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