Self Improvement Quotes: Success"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." James Allen

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him." James Allen

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."James Allen 

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Choose a life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable."Sir Francis Bacon

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." Dorothea Brande

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." Pearl Buck

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Buddha

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." Dr. David M. Burns

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." Dr. David M. Burns

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."Daniel H. Burnham

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."Dale Carnegie

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."Dale Carnegie

"Man is what he believes." Anton Chekhov

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." Sir Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."Sir Winston Churchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."Sir Winston Churchill

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."Sir Winston Churchill 

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." Confucius

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." John Dewey

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." Denis Diderot

"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true." Walt Disney

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy."Walt Disney

"Everything comes if a man will only wait." Benjamin Disraeli

"In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable." Benjamin Disraeli "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison  "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."Thomas Edison

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." Thomas A. Edison 

"One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day." Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot  "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." Ralph Waldo Emerson "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." Benjamin Franklin "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." Robert Fritz

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”Mahatma Gandhi

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi

"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them

truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As soon as you to trust yourself, you will know how to live."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If children grew up according to early indications, we would have nothing but geniuses."

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." James Gordon, M.D.

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." William Hazlitt "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action." Napoleon Hill

"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought." Napoleon Hill

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal." Napoleon Hill

"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it." Napoleon Hill

"Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."Napoleon Hill

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. "Lou Holtz   "To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live." Victor Hugo

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."Victor Hugo  "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." William James "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."William James

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." William James

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."Michael Jordan

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."Michael Jordan

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."John F. Kennedy

"We need men who can dream of things that never were." John F. Kennedy "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." John F. Kennedy

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."John F. Kennedy "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."Martin Luther King Jr.  "A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards." Karl Kraus  "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln  "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."Abraham Lincoln

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."   Abraham Lincoln

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." John Locke

"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes." Randy K. Milholland

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become."Earl Nightingale   "An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides." John H. Patterson

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale  "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." Norman Vincent Peale  "Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."  Norman Vincent Peale

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all." Anna Quindlen

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States." Ronald Reagan "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." Ronald Reagan "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."Tony Robbins

"Action is the foundational key to all success." Tony Robbins

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."Tony Robbins

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's

not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."Tony Robbins

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."Tony Robbins    "Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." David Rockefeller "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt "You always pass failure on the way to success." Mickey Rooney  "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. "Jim Rohn

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."Jim Rohn

"For things to change, we have to change."Jim Rohn

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."George Sand

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it." Albert Schweitzer  "Strong reasons make strong actions." William Shakespeare  "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."W. Clement Stone

"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."W. Clement Stone

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that  is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”Harriet Beecher Stowe

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."Mother Teresa

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."Mother Teresa

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." Oscar Wilde

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you." Oprah Winfrey

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." Oprah Winfrey

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."Frank Lloyd Wright "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." Zig Ziglar

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."Zig Ziglar

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."  Unknown

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."Unknown

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."Unknown 

"Constant self improvement will create constant growth and happiness."Unknown

Self Improvement Quotes: Goals"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."Les Brown

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

Carl Sandburg

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."Henry David Thoreau

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."Lawrence J. Peter

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."T.S. Eliot

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."John Dewey

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."John F. Kennedy

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."Jim Rohn

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."Michelangelo

"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."W. Clement Stone

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."Elbert Hubbard

Self Improvement Quotes: Gratitude"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."Seneca

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."William James

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."William Arthur Ward

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."Aldous Huxley

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."Cynthia Ozick

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."Albert Schweitzer

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."Cicero

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."Denis Waitley

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."Henry Ward Beecher

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."Epictetus 

Self Improvement Quotes: Love"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."Anais Nin

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea."Honor de Balzac

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."Arthur Rubenstein

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."Ann Landers

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."Barbara de Angelis

"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge."Bertrand Russell

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."W. Somerset Maugham

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."Victor Hugo

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."Elbert Hubbard

Self Improvement Quotes: Money"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."Michael Leboeuf

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."Bob Hope

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."Barack Obama

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."Mohandas K. Gandhi

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."Henry Fielding

"It frees you from doing things you dislike.  Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."Groucho Marx

"We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules."Buzzie Bavasi

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."Oscar Wilde

"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."Zig Ziglar

"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness."Henrik Ibsen

"How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry."William Shakespeare

Self Improvement Quotes: Persistence"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."Barack Obama

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."Herbert Kaufman

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."Denis Waitley

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."Elbert Hubbard

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."Frank Lloyd Wright

"The heights by great men reached and kept - Were not attained by sudden flight, - But they, while their companions slept, - Were toiling upward in the night."Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."Herodotus

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."Thomas Edison

"If you're going through hell, keep going."Winston Churchill

Self Improvement Quotes: Relationships"Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others."The Dalai Lama

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."Oprah Winfrey

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."Wayne Dyer

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."Lao Tzu

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

Buddha

"Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade."Leo Buscaglia

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."Henry Winkler

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough."Dinah Shore

"There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever."Rollo May

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."Anthony J. D'Angelo

Self Improvement Quotes: Habits"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."Aristotle

"Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout."Benjamin Franklin

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."Mark Twain

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."Frank A. Clark

"Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going."Jim Ryun

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them."Confucius

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."Aristotle

"Habit is a man's sole comfort.  We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed."  Johann Von Goethe

"Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."Vince Lombardi

"Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow."Yiddish Proverb

"The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change."Eng's Principle

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."Benjamin Franklin

Self Improvement Quotes: Happiness"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"Albert Camus

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."Albert Schweitzer

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself."Benjamin Franklin

"What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner."Colette

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."Buddha

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."Carl Jung

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."George Sand

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."Mohandas Gandhi

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."W. Beran Wolfe

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."Bertrand Russell 

Self Improvement Quotes: Fear"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."Marie Curie

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Albert Camus

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."Mary Manin Morrissey

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."Rosa Parks

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."Andre Gide

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."Orison Swett Marden

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."Bertrand Russell

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."Louisa May Alcott

"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."Dorothy Thompson

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."Aeschylus

Self Improvement Quotes: Leadership"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself."Gene Mauch

"Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts."John Gardner

"Leadership is action, not position."Donald H. McGannon

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing."Albert Schweitzer

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."Harvey S. Firestone

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."Peter Drucker

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."Stephen R. Covey

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."Robert Jarvik

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."John C. Maxwell

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Self Improvement Quotes: Mind"If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor."Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."Albert Einstein

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."John Milton

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."Mortimer Adler

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds."Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."Washington Irving

"Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts."John Harricharan

"It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions."Robert Collier

"Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place."Euripides

Self Improvement Quotes: Purpose"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."Washington Irving

"A useless life is an early death."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace."Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."Seneca

"Many people 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

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."Benjamin Disraeli

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."Henry David Thoreau

"Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power."Stephen R. Covey

"Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world."William E. Gladstone

Self Improvement Quotes: Courage"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."Ambrose Redmoon

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."Winston Churchill

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."Charles Dubois

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."Plato

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to

look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."Eleanor Roosevelt

"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."Edward Weeks

"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."Thucydides

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."Alfred North Whitehead

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."Dale Carnegie

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."Maya Angelou

Self Improvement Quotes: Giving"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."Plato

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."Albert Einstein

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No one has ever become poor by giving."Anne Frank

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."Winston Churchill

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."Seneca

"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."Albert Einstein

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."Maya Angelou

Self Improvement Quotes: Action"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."John Dewey

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."John Locke

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."Leo Tolstoy

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."Mark Twain

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."Mohandas Gandhi

"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."Robert F. Kennedy

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."Thomas Edison

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."Thomas Huxley

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."Thomas Jefferson

"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering."Viktor Frankl

Self Improvement Quotes: Attitude

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."Confucius

"The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy."The Dalai Lama

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."Marcus Aurelius

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."Mohandas Gandhi

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."Viktor Frankl

"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."William James

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."Oscar Wilde

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."Vince Lombardi

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."Anne Frank

Self Improvement Quotes: Awareness"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Anais Nin

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."Demosthenes

"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else."The Dalai Lama

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."Mohandas Gandhi

"However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness -- where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside -- to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible."Rhonda Byrne

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."Stephen Covey

"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness."Anthony de Mello

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."Abraham Maslow

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."Norman Cousins

"In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it."Ronald Reagan

Self Improvement Quotes: Belief"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."Buddha

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."Thomas Fuller

"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."Mark Twain

"A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors."Dalai Lama

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."Henry David Thoreau

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."Mahatma Gandhi

"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it."Ezra Pound

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death."Robert Fulgham

"I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."Rudyard Kipling

Self Improvement Quotes: Self Growth"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."Aldous Huxley

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."Henry David Thoreau

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."George Moore

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."Anais Nin

"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."Andy Warhol

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."Henry David Thoreau

"No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."Thomas Mann

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."St. Augustine

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."Eleanor Roosevelt

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."Mortimer Adler

"Life is a progress, and not a station."Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Improvement Quotes: Effectiveness"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."Henry David Thoreau

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to

get the task done."Peter Drucker

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."Stephen R. Covey

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."Peter Drucker

"The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."Stephen R. Covey

"To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments"Brian Koslow

"Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration."Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."Peter Drucker

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."Walter Savage Landor

Self Improvement Quotes: Truth"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident."Arthur Schopenhauer

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."Galileo

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."George Eliot

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."George Orwell

"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard."Henry David Thoreau

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please - you can never have both."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?Dogen

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."Leo Tolstoy

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.."John F. Kennedy

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth."John Locke

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."Marcus Aurelius

"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."Mark Twain

1. नि�राशा के अंधेरे को दूरकर

आशा का दीप जलाओ।

आपस में स्‍�ेह जगा कर

मा�वता को अप�ा धम� ब�ाओ

2. प्रत्‍येक व्‍यक्‍ति%‍त में अ�ेक निवशेषताएं छुपी होती है, जिजन्‍हें जागृत करके ही व्‍यक्‍ति%‍त का जीव� सफल और सार्थ�क ब� सकता

3. सत्‍य और अहिहंसा के द्वारा जीव� की हर लड़ाई जीती जा सकती है।

- महात्‍मा गांधी

4. हिहंदी देश की एकता की ऐसी कड़ी है, जिजसे मजबूत कर�ा प्रत्‍येक भारतीय का प्रर्थम कत�व्‍य है

- श्रीमती इंदिदरा गांधी

5. हिहंदी राजभाषा है अप�ी

दें हम इसे प्रनितष्‍ठा

इसके प्रनित हम रखे नि�रंतर

अप�ी सच्‍ची नि�ष्‍ठा

6. मदद कर�े के लिलए उठे हार्थ दुआ कर�े वाले हार्थों से श्रेष्‍ठ होते है।

7. निवचार करके बोल�ा श्रेष्‍ठता और बोल�े के बाद निवचार कर�ा मूख�ता है।

8. अप�े दोषों तर्था कमिमयों को जा� ले�ा उ� पर निवजय प्राप्‍त कर�े का पहला कदम है।

9. नितरंगा हमारा भारतवष� की शा� है। निवश्‍व भर में हमारी संस्‍कृनित की पहचा� है।

10. व्‍यक्‍ति%‍त काम की अमिधकता से �हीं, काम की अव्‍यवस्‍र्था से र्थकता है।

11. निब�ा चरिरत्र के लिशक्षा का कोई महत्‍व �हीं है। ( सरदार वल्‍लभ भाई पटेल)

12. इंसा� के व्‍यवहार की छोटी- छोटी बातें ही उसके चरिरत्र का आई�ा होती है।

13. प्रलिसनिद्व और ध� उस समुद्री जल के समा� है, जिजसे पी�े पर प्‍यास और बढ़ती जाती है।14. हम जिजत�ा अमिधक अध्‍यय� करेंगे , उत�ा ही हमें अप�ी अज्ञा�ता का आभास होगा ।

15. क्रोध और जल्‍दबाजी से व्‍यक्‍ति%‍त का कोई काम �हीं ब�ता, बल्‍किल्‍क और निबगड़ जाता है।

16. कभी कभी छोटी सी एक असफलता कई बड़ी सफलताओं के द्वार खोल देती है।

17. दूसरों के सार्थ वह व्‍यवहार � करें जो हमें अप�े लिलए पसंद �हीं हो।

18. जीव� एक पाठशाला है जिजसमें व्‍यक्‍ति%‍त अ�ुभवों से लिशक्षा ग्रहण करता है।

19. प्रत्‍येक अच्‍छा काय� पहले असंभव लगता है।

20. असफलता केवल यह लिसद्ध करती है निक सफलता का प्रयास पूरे म� से �हीं हुआ।

Hindi Quotes About Success

वही सबसे तेज चलता है, जो अकेला चलता है। प्रत्येक अच्छा काय� पहले असम्भव �जर आता है।

ऊद्यम ही सफलता की कंुजी है। एकाग्रता से ही निवजय मिमलती है।

कीर्तितं वीरोलिचत काय` की सुगन्ध है। भाग्य साहसी का सार्थ देता है।

सफलता अत्यमिधक परिरश्रम चाहती है। निववेक बहादुरी का उत्तम अंश है।

काय� उद्यम से लिसद्ध होते है, म�ोरर्थो से �ही।

संकल्प ही म�ुष्य का बल है। प्रचंड वायु मे भी पहाड निवचलिलत �ही होते। कम� कर�े मे ही अमिधकार है, फल मे �ही।

मेह�त, निहम्मत और लग� से कल्प�ा साकार होती है।

अप�ी शलिfयों पर भरोसा कर�े वाला कभी असफल �हीं होता।

Hindi Love Quotes

मुस्का� पे्रम की भाषा है। सच्चा पे्रम दुल�भ है, सच्ची मिमत्रता और भी दुल�भ है। अहंकार छोडे निब�ा सच्चा पे्रम �ही निकया जा सकता।

प्रसन्नता स्वास्थ्य देती है, निवषाद रोग देते है। प्रसन्न कर�े का उपाय है, स्वयं प्रसन्न रह�ा।

अमिधकार जता�े से अमिधकार लिसद्ध �ही होता। एक गुण समस्त दोषो को ढक लेता है।

दूसरो से पे्रम कर�ा अप�े आप से पे्रम कर�ा है।

Hindi Quotes About Time

समय महा� लिचनिकत्सक है। समय निकसी की प्रतीक्षा �ही करता।

हर दिद� वष� का सव`त्तम दिद� है। एक झूठ लिछपा�े के लिलये दस झूठ बोल�े पडते है।

प्रकृनित के सब काम धीरे-धीरे होते है।

Hindi Quotes About Learning

निब�ा गुरु के ज्ञा� �ही होता। आपकी बुजिद्ध ही आपका गुरु है। जिजग्यासा के निब�ा ज्ञा� �ही होता।

निब�ा अ�ुभव के कोरा शाब्दिnदक ज्ञा� अंधा है। अल्प ज्ञा� खतर�ाक होता है। कम� सरल है, निवचार कदिठ�।

उपदेश दे�ा सरल है, उपाय बता�ा कदिठ�।

New Year Greetings In Hindi

�व वष� के आगम� पर हार्दिदंक बधाई। �व वष� शुभ हो।

�व वष� आपके जीव� मे उमग लाये। �या साल आपको �या अ�ुभव दे। �व वष� आपके लिलये निहतकारी हो।

�व वष� मे हर कदम पर आपको सफलता मिमले। �व वष� मे आप फले, फूले।

�या साल आपके लिलये लाभदायक हो। �या साल आपके लिलये �यी खुलिशया लाये। �या साल आपको �या उत्साह प्रदा� करे।

�व वष� सुख- सम्रल्‍किध्ध से भरपूर हो। �व वष� मे आपकी सभी म�ोकाम�ाये पूरी हो।

�व वष� मे भाग्य सदैव आपका सार्थ दे।

�व वष� मे आपकी दिद� दोगु�ी रात चौगु�ी तर%की हो।

Some Other Hindi Quote

ध� अप�ा पराया �ही देखता। जैसा अन्न, वैसा म�।

अहिहंसा सव`त्तम धम� है। बहुमत की आवाज न्याय का द्योतक �ही है।

अन्याय मे सहयोग दे�ा, अन्याय के ही समा� है।

निवश्वास से आश्चय�-ज�क प्रोत्साह� मिमलता है।