Work on yourself quotes. The best “quotes” about self-development

Motivational quotes from great people about human development

1. Where self-development ends, the sofa begins. David Allen

2. Between success and failure lies an abyss called “I don’t have time.” Franklin Field

3. What other wealth do you need besides being the master of your life and spending it on growth? Ayn Rand

4. Continuous learning is the key to success in the 21st century. Lifelong learning is the minimum requirement for success in your (and any other) field of work. Brian Tracy

5. You learn the fastest in three cases - before the age of 7, during trainings, and when life has driven you into a corner. Stephen Covey

6. I can offer you a simple formula for success: first think everything through, and then implement it to the end. Eddie Rickenbaker

It’s not your problems that should push you back, but your dreams that should lead you forward. Douglas Everett

7. You won't grow if you don't try to accomplish something beyond what you already know perfectly. Ralph Emerson

8. Don't be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and it will be given to you according to your faith. William James

9. You will never be able to solve a problem if you keep the same thinking and the same approach that led you to this problem. Albert Einstein

10. You will have failures. You will have injuries. You will be wrong. You will have periods of depression and despair. Family, study, work, everyday problems - all this will interfere with the training more than once or twice. However, the arrow of your internal compass should always point in the same direction - towards the goal. Stuart McRobert

11. Why is it that when a child is born, we consider it a miracle, and then he begins to live an ordinary, mediocre life? Where, at what stage of life's journey do we forget about this miracle - the miracle of human life? Hal Elrod

12. If you always do what interests you, at least one person will be satisfied. Katharine Hepburn

13. There are seven days in a week. “Someday” is not one of them.

14. Reading is for the mind what physical education is for the body and prayer for the soul. We become the books we read. Matthew Callie

15. In silence, the soul sees the path in a clearer light, and everything elusive and deceptive appears in crystal transparency. Mahatma Gandhi

16. I am not the result of circumstances. I am the result of my decisions. Stephen Covey

17. Motivation makes us start doing something. Habit forces you to continue doing it. Jim Rohn

18. Even when life is hard and full of problems - especially when it is hard and full of problems - the present always offers us the opportunity to learn, grow and become better than we were before.

19. If you stop every time you are insulted or spat at, then you will never get to the place where you need to go. Tibor Fischer

20. The difference between those who achieved something and those who achieved nothing is determined by who started earlier. Charles Schwab

21. Surround yourself only with those people who will pull you higher. It’s just that life is already full of those who want to pull you down. George Clooney

22. First of all, don't do anything without a reason. Secondly, do not do anything that does not benefit society. Marcus Aurelius

23. Knowledge is not enough, you must apply it. Wishes are not enough, you must do. Bruce Lee

24. Roll up your sleeves, work hard, and know that your efforts will eventually pay off as you learn and grow. Steve Pavlina

25. We are slaves to our habits. , and your life will change. Robert Kiyosaki

36. If you want to prolong your life, shorten your meals. Benjamin Franklin

37. A goal without a plan is just a dream. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

38. A goal is a dream with a specific deadline. Keith Ferrazzi

39. Our big flaw is that we give up too quickly. The surest path to success is to always try one more time. Thomas Edison

40. I want this. So it will be. Henry Ford

41. The main thing is to give all your strength to your chosen cause and word of mouth will spread from you. Because perfection is rare. Andre Maurois

42. Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you were dying today. James Dean

43. If you want to succeed, ask yourself 4 questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not right now? Jimmy Dean

44. Laziness trudges along so slowly that poverty quickly catches up with it. Benjamin Franklin

45. Consider as unhappy that day or hour in which you have not learned anything new and have not added anything to yours. Jan Amos Comenius

46. Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

47. The most difficult fight is when you have to fight laziness for happiness. Muhammad Ali

48. Inaction creates anxiety and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and don't think about it. Get up and take action. Dale Carnegie

49. Even if you are very talented and put in a lot of effort, some results just take time: you won't get a baby in a month even if you get nine women pregnant. Warren Buffett

About success

“People often comment that I am quite lucky. Success only matters because it gives you the opportunity to sell yourself. After that, all you have to do is have talent and know how to use it” (Frank Sinatra).

“You can have everything you want in life if you just help other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

“The endless desire to be the best is a man’s duty. Everything else is in God’s hands” (Mahatma Gandhi).

“You were born to win, but to become a winner you must plan, prepare for and expect to win.” - Zig Ziglar

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“He who wants to become rich in a day will be hanged in a year” (Leonardo da Vinci)

“How pitiful is the one who does not know how to wait! Do wounds heal immediately?” (William Shakespeare)

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person” (Zig Ziglar)

“Luck is not an accident, it is work. Fortune's smile must be earned" (Emily Dickinson)

Smart quotes from brilliant people of the past

1. When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself: “What should I do?” In the evening before falling asleep: “What have I done?” Pythagoras

2. Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live in a way that others cannot.

3. A ship is safer in port, but that’s not what it was built for. Grace Hopper

4. Three components give birth to a genius: concentration on the task at hand, and time. Robin Sharma

5. The only way to become smarter is to play with a stronger opponent. Emmanuel Lasker

6. Rich people have a large library. Poor people have a big TV. Dan Kennedy

7. Talent itself is cheaper than table salt. There is only one thing that distinguishes a successful person from a talented person - a lot of hard work. Stephen King

8. It’s better to start badly than to do nothing well. Bodo Schaefer

9. Everyone who stops learning grows old, no matter at 20 or 80, and anyone else who continues to study remains young. The most important thing in life is to keep your brain young! Henry Ford

10. There is only one way to do great work - to love it! Steve Jobs

11. Do what you can with what you have and where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

12. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one single small step. Lao Tzu

13. A successful person is always an amazing artist of his imagination. Imagination is much more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, but imagination is unlimited. Albert Einstein

14. Great minds set goals for themselves; other people follow their desires. Washington Irving

15. Do business with people you like and who share your goals. Warren Buffett

16. Anyone who cannot have 2/3 of a day for himself should be called a slave. Friedrich Nietzsche

17. Our achievements always correspond to our ambitions. Andrey Kurpatov

18. In twenty years you will regret what you didn't do than what you did do. Therefore, cast aside your doubts. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the fair wind with your sails. Explore. Dream. Open it up. Mark Twain

19. Not all wheels have been invented yet: the world is too amazing to sit idly by. Richard Branson

20. Strive to be not just a successful person, but a valuable one. Albert Einstein

21. If you appreciate what you have in life, you will always get more. If you only think about what you don't have, you will never have enough. Oprah Winfrey

22. During my career, I missed more than 9,000 shots and lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was trusted to take the final winning shot and missed. I failed again and again and again. And that's why I was successful. Michael Jordan

23. Start copying what you like. Copy. Copy. Copy. And you will find yourself. Yoji Yamamoto

24. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a book of 365 pages. Write a good book. Brad Paisley

25. Be sure to be friends with those who are better than you. You will suffer, but you will grow.

26. Every day you have to do something that scares you.

27. It is impossible to live better than spending your life striving to become more perfect.

28. If you want to improve your mind, improve your body.

29. Conquer yourself and win thousands of battles. Buddha

30. Thought is the beginning of everything. And thoughts can be controlled. And therefore, the main thing to improve is to work on thoughts. Lev Tolstoy

31. It doesn't matter if you are better than someone. What matters is whether you will be better than yesterday. Kano Jigoro

32. The desire for self-development stems from “narcissistic” desires, that is, it represents a tendency towards self-aggrandizement and superiority over others. Sigmund Freud

33. Whatever you come up with, there will always be someone who has already done it before you. So the main thing is to do it better. Adriano Celentano

34. When you climb a high mountain, a huge number of mountains open up in front of you, which have yet to be climbed.

35. If you want to rise high, use your own legs! Don't let yourself be carried around, don't sit on other people's shoulders and heads! Friedrich Nietzsche

36. An invincible opponent is the best motivation for endless self-improvement.

37. Come up with as many activities as possible for yourself. Lev Tolstoy

38. A person is somewhat like an airplane. An airplane can travel on the ground, but to prove that it is an airplane, it must take to the air. It’s the same with us: if we don’t rise above ourselves, no one will guess that we can fly. Victor Frankl

39. Work like a bee on who you really want to be.

40. Success does not come overnight. This is when every day you become a little better than the day before. Everything comes gradually.

41. You can only change yourself, but who will agree with this? It is much more common to judge others and rush into battle for their improvement. Alexander Sviyash

42. You will never be able to solve a problem if you keep the same thinking and the same approach that led you to this problem. Albert Einstein

43. The one who walks will master the road.

44. To improve means to change, to be perfect means to change often. Winston Churchill

45. Only music has the power to shape character. With the help of music you can teach yourself to develop the right feelings. Aristotle

46. Even a reasonable person will become stupid if he does not develop himself.

47. Develop your strengths instead of trying to improve your weaknesses. Bernard Werber

48. Either you rise up one step today, or gather your strength to rise up that step tomorrow.

49. No one can change, but everyone can become better. Ernst Feuchtersleben

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Personally, I believe that self-improvement should be one of the main interests in people's lives. Otherwise, why are we, humans, considered highly developed beings, while in many respects we are still somewhere close to our distant, distant relatives with whom we live on planet Earth - animals. We often live one day at a time and do not think about the consequences of our actions, we are often content with less, we love stability, and are afraid to go beyond the ordinary and improve ourselves and the world around us. Should it be like this? Find out what famous historical figures think and thought about self-development.

Self Improvement Quotes and Phrases:

1) No matter how good you are, you can always improve and that's the most exciting part. Tiger Woods
2) Without constant growth and progress, words like improvement, achievement and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
3) You only grow when you are alone. Paul Newman
4) You cannot hope to create a better world without improving the individual. To this end, each of us must work to improve ourselves while sharing responsibility for all of humanity, AND it is our special duty to help those to whom we believe we can be of service. Marie Curie
5) First we create our habits, then our habits create us. John Dryden
6) I have great respect for incremental improvement and have done it in my life, but I have always been drawn to more revolutionary changes. I do not know why it is so. Because they are more complex. They are more emotional. And you usually go through a period where everyone tells you that you have completely failed. Steve Jobs
7) Each of us has talent, but ability requires hard work. Michael Jordan
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter where you come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. Madona
9) A strong person cannot help someone who is weaker until the weak one wants to be helped, and even then the weak person must become stronger than he is; he must, by his own efforts, develop that strength which he admires in others. No one else can change his condition except him. James Allen
10) I will destroy hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude towards others can never bring me success. I will make others believe in me because I will believe in them and in myself. Napoleon Hill
11) You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished before you achieve success, and I believe there is room for improvement in every athlete. Lionel Messi
12) If you don't change, you may become extinct. Spencer Johnson
13) Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) to secure your future Brian Tracy
14) Things don't get better; they remain as they are. We are the ones who become better people because of the changes we create in ourselves. Swami Vivekananda
15) When you affirm more, believe for more and pray for more, put faith into action, big things happen. Norman Vincent Peale
16) We become the ideal we carry in our hearts. Elbert Hubbard
17) He who conquers himself is the most powerful warrior. Confucius
18) I believe that most of us require effort to control our body for one or two days - for example, wake up early, get up early, exercise regularly, eat moderately, stay at work when necessary, even if you get tired. Too many people try to overcome their higher weaknesses, such as procrastination, impatience, or pride, by remaining slaves to their appetites. If we cannot control our body and its appetites, how can we control our tongue, or conquer worry or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred? Stephen Covey
19) One day, when we accept our limitations, we will go beyond them. Albert Einstein
20) Work on yourself more than you work on your work. Jim Rohn
21) Losing faith in free will did not make me a fatalist - in fact, it improved my sense of freedom. My hopes, fears and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I will change in the future. Just as we couldn't make a definitive judgment about ourselves based on a brief experience of indigestion, we shouldn't do so based on what we believed or how we behaved for a long time in the past. Creatively changing contributions to the system—learning new skills, building new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—can radically change lives. Sam Harris
22) A task that has no end is self-improvement. Ralph Waldo Emerson
23) Our greatness as human beings lies not so much in the fact that we can remake the world - this is the world of the atomic age, but in the fact that we are able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi
24) Anyone who seeks a better life must first become a better person. Jim Rohn
25) Formal education will make you alive, self-education will make you happy. Jim Rohn
26) People spend their lives serving their passions instead of using their passions to serve their lives. Richard Steele
27) Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement. Baltasar Gracian
28) Self-development is a greater duty than self-sacrifice. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
29) There is only one corner of the universe that you can be sure of improving, and that is yourself. Aldous Huxley
30) Let a man radically change his thoughts, and he will be amazed at the rapid transformation that this will produce in his material conditions of life. People imagine that thoughts can be kept secret, but this is not so, it quickly crystallizes into a habit, and the habit hardens. James Allen
31) There is nothing noble in surpassing your neighbor; true nobility is surpassing your former self. Ernest Hemingway
32) Be smarter than others if you can; but don't tell them about it. Dale Carnegie
33) An interesting paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, I have the opportunity to change. Carl Rogers
34) When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better. Paulo Coelho
35) He who cannot change his mind cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
36) Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can. Don't worry about being better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
37) What we call our destiny is really our character, and this character can be changed. Knowing that we are responsible for our actions and relationships should not be discouraging because it also means that we can change our destiny. Anais Nin

Of course, every person is free to choose his own destiny, and to improve or remain the same, or even to degrade, is only his choice. But are you really choosing? From the moment we become adults, we stop developing naturally, and the gradual decline of our mental abilities and the aging of our body begins. Degradation is something that cannot be avoided, so we do not choose this path, but we are always free to choose the path of self-improvement, in which the process of degradation slows down and we have more time and more opportunities to make ourselves and this world at least a little bit better. I hope quotes about self-development and personal development will help you make the right choice.

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// Quotes and phrases about self-improvement

I understand too much, but often my thoughts lead a chaotic life. There is no stability in your own thoughts, and there is no consistency in your mood either. Since all people are different, everyone has their own tastes, interests, opinions and general worldview, I try to explain to myself that the person living next to me is not my property, that he does not belong to me, that he is a person and an individual and I am somehow... then you have to come to terms with the fact that every person needs personal space, to be alone and communicate with whoever he wants. That is, I do not have the right to prohibit something, trying to get my way with hysterics and tears, I am showing selfishness. You are a person, you are an individual, and I have no right to infringe on someone’s freedom. My boundaries of what is permitted and what is not permitted are my boundaries. You have your own. For you in a relationship the main thing is one thing, for me it’s another. That's why we can't get along normally. In terms of freedom, it’s up to you to decide how to manage it; it all depends on your moral values. And this doesn’t mean that I don’t care or that I don’t care about everything. I don't give a damn. You won't go far without trust. Here's my first thought. But then my egoism, my owner, comes in and sweeps all these thoughts into dust, triggers emotions, including Jealousy, Nervousness, irritability... in general, the apocalypse begins. I begin to speak out about everything and anything, if only they would pay attention to me, if only they would please me and create all sorts of comfort for me. At the same time, I understand that it is not easy for you to take everything and change it. In other words, I am unconsciously trying to manipulate and bring you under my control, although I understand that this is impossible.

Childhood traumas carried into adulthood only bring discomfort. As a child, I was not allowed to build my boundaries, so I practically have none. And that’s why I always freak out and get nervous when the boundaries of others arise in front of me. Only long-term work on yourself can change at least something about yourself.

Some events you want to forget and get out of your head forever. I, like many who read this text, tend to become immersed in my thoughts, analyze what happened for a long time and fight the inner demon. But, you know, some things don't deserve our psychological energy.

“I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was trusted to make the winning shot, but I missed. Time after time I have failed in life. I lost and lost and lost. And that's why I succeeded."

This is my favorite Michael Jordan quote. It is much deeper than it might seem at first glance. Of course, we all remember Jordan's legendary shots, but in reality Michael lived in constant bad luck. Now think about your reaction when you fail day after day. Your boss yelled at you because you didn't do the job correctly. The teacher scolded me for another bad grade. What do you do? Do you spend the rest of the day feeling sad and telling yourself “what a loser I am!”?

Know that you will get disqualifying fouls from people all the time. Don't count on anything else. The only way to get the most out of life is to learn to forget. You missed a shot, forget about it, go back and try again. Someone is trying to humiliate you, make you angry. never mind! You have already forgotten about everything! Don't stop, keep working.

If you want to achieve a lot, you have to lose a lot. Everyone will have their own opinion about you. Not everyone will love you, especially in moments when they want to humiliate and hurt you. Build up your short-term memory and keep throwing.

Job vacancy. Aihaa's work I can't find a job, no one wants to hire me. I get up in the morning, I search hard, I’m ready to start from the bottom! I will go for a feat, a crime, I’m ready to lie about my age! If only relief would come, To escape the shackles of poverty! And the advertisements are wonderful, The period of posting is a hundred centuries, They want them to be young, And with the experience of three old people! But if you still manage to force yourself to invite... He will come out afterwards and spit on himself. It’s a shame to be deceived. Job selection, a treasure trove of examples Which one should you be for them! They will take a hundred measurements from you! They will get into everyone’s “pants.” And suddenly fate smiles on you, but they can only give you a month. To show that morality bends! Make you work for bread! Unfortunately, work dictates to us, Our weight, our age and debts And in the form of debt it triumphs, To kiss the boss’s footprints.

He torments her as if he were raising his wife. He gets her to suit himself - to suit his vices, Habits, fears, freckles, red hair. He drills, tolls, grooms, gives lessons.

And so she is tamed - all the more true because we cannot calmly watch and complain. She sees concern for her in everything. More precisely, about their future. It’s clear, in general.

He torments her so much, berates her, bones her, honors her, He torments her like that - deliberately, intelligently, biasedly. He torments her as if he were raising his wife. But he’s not the type to get married, that’s clear.

It turns out that all this is for nothing: “Anchor, anchor”, “Come to me, come to me,” - the iridescent cry of tarzania, Scandals, tears, hysterics, all the decor, Comings, departures and other million torments.

This is how those doomed to poverty are taught to carouse. This is how they teach the crown prince to sit on the throne - And they know that tomorrow the throne will be torn to pieces, having first dealt with the persons of royal blood.

It would be good if the light did not converge on him like a wedge And everything would fit with another, similar to him; But that’s the whole problem, that there are no others like her, and he torments her, but we can’t do anything.

...But maybe all the training is aimed at this, So that after shame, roaring, breakdown, rupture, She will grow up and become equal to him, Which means - invincible, invulnerable?

And all so that, having rejected the temptation of kinship, Choking on tears, having walked kilometers of blades, She grew up to him - and outgrew, And stepped over, and then went on like an iron?..

And it will remain - cracked armor, an empty glass, a turned page.

Isn’t this how God is testing me to make me like himself - and to withdraw,

Doesn't everything work out?..

It is not always possible to influence the actions of another person. We cannot change people, things or situations according to our wishes. So, when faced with an insoluble problem, it is worth taking a step back and looking at ourselves from the outside, because this is the only thing we can change.

“Be the change you want to see in this world” - Mahatma Gandhi

This is a powerful call to take full responsibility for your own life. Practice what you preach. Gandhi said that we ourselves must actively create the changes we want to see in the world. It is we who have to change first, not anyone else or anything else. Complaining and criticizing from a safe distance is not enough. We need to take responsibility for ourselves and our environment.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

When you find your true purpose in life, you can overcome almost any challenge you face. In other words, if you know why you live, you will overcome increasingly difficult obstacles with less resistance, realizing the importance of achieving the end result.

“In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we have” - Dalai Lama

To grow as a person and be truly free, you need to stay true to yourself. When you ask yourself whether recent decisions, current work situations, or future long-term intentions truly align with what you want in life, try to turn off rationalism. Hear your first instinctive responses. The truth can be unpleasant, but in order to move forward, you need to acknowledge it.

“Twenty years from now you will regret more the things you didn’t do than the things you did do.” So raise your anchors. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the fair wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Know" - Mark Twain

Mark Twain encourages us to move actively and boldly towards what lies ahead. Seize the opportunities that the unknown presents. We are often afraid to do something without knowing the end result, and we choose the usual, “maybe another time.” Take the plunge and see where it takes you.

“A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new” - Albert Einstein

Einstein advises to have courage and try something new.

Making mistakes is absolutely necessary to learn anything. Nobody balances the first time they get on a bike. We look at the skill of a professional with admiration, but we did not see how many times he fell, broke his knees and became frustrated. Making mistakes is the most significant part of achieving success in any business.

“Continuing to be angry is like picking up a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone; It will be you who will get burned.” – Buddha

When we overreact to a situation and experience anger, we intend to direct it at another person. But this primitive way of thinking always backfires on us, increasing pain and exacerbating trauma.

“Life will give you exactly the experiences you need to evolve your consciousness” - Eckhart Tolle, bestselling author of The Power of Now

We cannot cheat life. There are no shortcuts. Every bad situation is our opportunity to grow. A person gets what he or she is attracted to at the moment. If we don't learn from our mistakes, we end up living the same situations over and over until we finally change.

Eckhart Tolle reminds us that life always happens in the present moment and nowhere else. Feeling it fully means centering your consciousness on the here and now.

“Don't take anything personally. Everything people say or do is a projection of their own reality, their personal vision. If you develop an immunity to the views and actions of others, you will avoid needless suffering." - Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Achieving Personal Freedom

You suddenly become incredibly free when you don't take anything personally. When you understand this, you will not be hurt by other people's careless remarks or actions. This incredibly expands life's possibilities.