Personal Development
Personal development has been a cornerstone of human growth throughout history, with insights shared by thought leaders, psychologists, and successful individuals.
Whether you're embarking on your personal development journey, refining your growth strategies, or seeking to unlock your full potential, these words of wisdom can provide inspiration and guidance.
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You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.
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Sun Tzu
Treat yourself as you are, and you will remain as you are. Treat yourself as you could be, and you will become what you should be.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Viktor E. Frankl
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Albert Einstein
All Quotes on Personal Development
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
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Sun Tzu
You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.
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Sun Tzu
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
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Sun Tzu
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Mencius
A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.
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Mencius
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Mencius
You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: why not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
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Xunzi
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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Xunzi
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Xunzi
People were so consumed by their fears and ambitions, their desires. They were so busy planning and plotting their lives that they failed to live them.
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Imhotep
Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence.
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Ptahhotep
People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering.
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Augustine of Hippo
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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Ibn Khaldun
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Maimonides
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it. Rather, it’s that we aim too low and we reach it.
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Michelangelo