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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
Sep 10, 2025
We do as we feel not as we think
If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does
Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.
Only the insecure strive for security.
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.
Joy comes from using your potential.
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.
Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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.
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.
Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.
Learning another language is like becoming another person.
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.
For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.