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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.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3135
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3052
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 3000
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a manby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2977
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 offenderby: John LockeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2915
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish himby: John LockeShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2913
What worries you, masters youby: John LockeShowing 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.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2818
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.by: Charles LambShowing 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 myselfby: Charles LambShowing 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.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2751
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to othersby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2747
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himselfby: Thomas a KempisShowing 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 bodyby: John KeatsShowing 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 worldby: John KeatsShowing 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 someby: John KeatsShowing 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 prayby: John KebleShowing 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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Quote 2465
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2452
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 doby: Andrew CarnegieShowing 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 lineby: Andrew CarnegieShowing 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 somethingby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2399
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joyby: Johannes CalvinShowing 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 loveby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2290
Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yetby: Robert BrowningShowing 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 lifeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2279
The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2276
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2264
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth somethingby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on self-development
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Quote 2253
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength onby: Robert BrowningShowing 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 shockedby: Robert BrowningShowing 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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