Best Self Development Quotes

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

A relapse doesn’t mean you’ll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, HonestyAny kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment, feeling good is the product. With self development, feeling good is the by-product.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Build what you want to see in the world.

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call ‘samsara’ and which our Holy Bible calls ‘dust’.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

You’re always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you’ve got to make the best of it. You’ve got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can’t keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you’ve got to reach for a different thought.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.