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God ever works with those who work with will.
Sep 10, 2025
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you. . . some blessings will be delivered in this life; others will come beyond the veil. The Lord is intent on your personal growth and development. That progress is accelerated when you willingly allow Him to lead you through every growth experience you encounter, whether initially it be to your individual liking or not.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the change you want to see.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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