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Quote 3164
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3135
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingShowing Quotes on self-development
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a manShowing Quotes on self-development
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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the strongerShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2960
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than todayShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2931
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offenderShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2915
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish himShowing Quotes on self-development
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What worries you, masters youShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2877
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2857
To be content with life, or to live merrily, rather, all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we growShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2850
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2821
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2818
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2814
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myselfShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2757
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2751
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to othersShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2747
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himselfShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2741
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other bodyShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2720
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this worldShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2713
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out someShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2691
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who praysShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2662
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2639
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we prayShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2547
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his lifeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2535
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2467
Error is discipline through which we advanceShowing Quotes on self-development
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on self-development
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himselfShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2446
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more sereneShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2420
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they doShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2418
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that lineShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2415
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somethingShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2399
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joyShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2379
There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of othersShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2364
The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselvesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2317
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2291
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning loveShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2290
Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yetShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2286
We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a lifeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2279
The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!Showing Quotes on self-development
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Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2264
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth somethingShowing Quotes on self-development
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength onShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2250
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shockedShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2248
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too lateShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2238
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their loveShowing Quotes on self-development
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Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brainShowing Quotes on self-development
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It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a whileShowing Quotes on self-development
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wiseShowing Quotes on self-development
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mindShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2019
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's eggShowing Quotes on self-development
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in othersShowing Quotes on self-development
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Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same person.Showing Quotes on self-development
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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit itShowing Quotes on self-development
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughterShowing Quotes on self-development
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dullShowing Quotes on self-development
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common senseShowing Quotes on self-development
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.Showing Quotes on self-development
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything elseShowing Quotes on self-development
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.Showing Quotes on self-development
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing themShowing Quotes on self-development
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of themShowing Quotes on self-development
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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowanceShowing Quotes on self-development
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle ageShowing Quotes on self-development
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on self-development
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By indignities men come to dignitiesShowing Quotes on self-development
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdomShowing Quotes on self-development
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirtyShowing Quotes on self-development
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Every artist was first an amateurShowing Quotes on self-development
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Some people reach the age of sixty before othersShowing Quotes on self-development
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leaderShowing Quotes on self-development
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The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fastShowing Quotes on self-development
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The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exerciseShowing Quotes on self-development
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Things do not change; we changeShowing Quotes on self-development
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdomShowing Quotes on self-development
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wingsShowing Quotes on self-development
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it homeShowing Quotes on self-development
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo itShowing Quotes on self-development
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I moveShowing Quotes on self-development
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensionsShowing Quotes on self-development
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothingShowing Quotes on self-development
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on self-development
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes onShowing Quotes on self-development
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to applyShowing Quotes on self-development
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wiselyShowing Quotes on self-development
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A man growing old becomes a child againShowing Quotes on self-development
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.Showing Quotes on self-development
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign powerShowing Quotes on self-development
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