Personal Development Insights Quotes

Embrace the moment, your life will be whatever you want to make of it. Be inspired to do great works. You aren't finished yet. Go for your goals! ~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

If a tree's strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life. ~ Abigail Thomas

Every difficulty is an opportunity for personal growth. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an economy in your mind ~ Nicky Verd

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about. ~ Earl Nightingale

Don't hide in the dark to whisper the truth undertone secretly. It's a good way to market your timidity. Be bold. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

YOU ARE WHO AND WHAT YOU DECIDE YOU ARE
NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. ~ Christopher Babson

Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success. ~ John Patrick Hickey

It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you copy my dreams, you automatically will copy my challenges too. My success will give you a crown. My challenges will make you frown. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust. ~ John Patrick Hickey

The integrity of the upright provides guiding principles that help him to achieve his vision. Hard work without integrity will lead to struggles and frustration ~ Prince Akwarandu

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose. ~ Saji Ijiyemi

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself ~ Sophocles

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited. ~ Bob Proctor

All great changes in life were inspired either by a book or by a personal point of view. The greatest were inspired by a woman. ~ Sameh Elsayed

Anyone who is so busy that they do not have time to enjoy what life has for them are just too busy. ~ John Patrick Hickey

I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest inspiration that I can contain. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Einstein felt that he did not have great mathematical gifts and deliberately chose not to take courses and to continue in that area.

The fact that I neglected mathematics to a certain extent had its causes not merely in my stronger interest in science than in mathematics but also in the following strange experience....I saw that mathematics was split up into numerous specialties, each of which could easily absorb the short lifetime granted to us....In physics, however, I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

This capacity to pick out important issues dovetailed with Einstein's search for the most general possible conception. "In a man of my type," he declared, "the turning point of the development lies in the fact that gradually the major interest disengages itself to a far reaching degree from the momentary and the merely personal and turns toward the striving for a mental grasp of things. ~ Howard Gardner

Love is one of the most powerful healing tools in the universe. Most people forget to use it to build rapport, to deepen their relatedness, and to mend the upset that underlies disagreement and expectation. Sprinkle more love and you will heal only 100% of the time. ~ Monika Zands

Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly ~ Matthew Donnelly

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks! ~ John Patrick Hickey

Practice is a great contributor to success, but you have to be careful what you practice. ~ Don Crosby

The circumstance of the mind is equivalent to the circumstance of your reality and a pure sign of the justification of the universe. Positive energy equals a positive well being and the manifestation of positive things thereof.
Do you have the wherewithal to be positive? Do you hold the key to your destiny or the barrier to your dismay? Insightful are those with an open ear and an open heart to these principles. Are you on the right track? Whether you say yes or no to this question, your reality is a direct reflection. ~ Will Barnes

At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all. For a million years humans had grown up with a personal daily knowledge of the vault of heaven. In the last few thousand years they began building and emigrating to the cities. In the last few decades, a major fraction of the human population has abandoned a rustic way of life. As technology developed and the cities were polluted, the nights became starless. New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology. Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that ended only with the dawn of space exploration. ~ Carl Sagan

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself. ~ Richard Attias

Follow the truth and you will never get lost. ~ Renae A. Sauter

If you don't fight for your dreams, you won't earn anything. If you don't anything, you will beg for everything. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement. ~ John Patrick Hickey

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions? ~ Ricci-Jane Adams

Some people are naturally solitary. They want to live lone lives, and are content. Most, however, have a need for enduring, close relationships. These provide both a psychic and social framework for personal growth, under­standing, and development. It is an easy enough matter to shout to the skies: "I love my fellow men," when on the other hand you ronn no strong, enduring relationship with others. It is easy to claim an equal love for all members of the species, but love itself requires an understanding that at your level of activity is based upon intimate experience. You cannot love someone you do not know-not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.

To love someone, you must appreciate how that per­son differs from yourself and from others. You must hold that person in mind so that to some extent love is a kind of meditation-a loving focus upon another individual. Once you experience that kind of love you can translate it into other tenns. The love itself spreads out, expands, so that you can then see others in love's light.

Love is naturally creative and explorative-that is, you want to creatively explore the aspects of the beloved one. Even characteristics that would otherwise appear as mults attain a certain loving significance. They are accepted­seen, and yet they make no difference. Because these are still attributes of the beloved one, even the seeming faults are redeemed. The beloved attains prominence ~ Seth

I believe we must pursue mastery for who we become along the way in its achievement. When we progress in Jiu Jitsu, that newfound experience and wisdom transcends into all areas of our lives. We use Jiu Jitsu as the vehicle for growth, but that growth radiates over all of human activity. Someone who devotes time and energy in learning this skill is learning far more than how to subdue an opponent. The student learns persistence, perseverance, pattern recognition, problem solving, and most importantly, learning how to learn. In the arena of life, these virtues are far more valuable than any guard pass. ~ Chris Matakas

The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up. ~ Jim Rohn

Success is not a summit to climb, It is an equilibrium where work and life are balanced ~ Kandarp Gandhi

Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves. ~ Gerhard Casper

When we make a habit of expressing love and gratitude our world expands into something beautiful. ~ Renae A. Sauter

Now you must journey inwards to what you really fear it's inside you... there is no turning back. Your training is nothing. The will is everything. The will to act. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. Are you ready to begin? - Batman Begins ~ Henry Ducard

To succeed, you must never stop trying. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn't choose - or at least one we wouldn't prefer. ~ Michael Hyatt

As you never tire of stating, the only moral imperative for the writer, against which there is no recourse, is to return to the literary-linguistic community to which he belongs a fresh, personal style of writing different from what previously existed and which he inherited when setting out on his task: to work on what is given, to follow accepted models is to be condemned to an impoverished insignificance, however much applause the writer gets from the public: the work of whoever does not innovate might as well not exist, for its disappearance would not affect the development of his culture at all. ~ Juan Goytisolo

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less
this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse. It has only served to separate man from nature. Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness.
Agriculture must change from large mechanical operations to small farms attached only to life itself. Material life and diet should be given a simple place. If this is done, work becomes pleasant, and spiritual breathing space becomes plentiful. ~ Masanobu Fukuoka

Writing out a goal allows us to see it in words. It creates a statement that does not change; it is something that we can go back to repeatedly for direction and clarity. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. ~ Jim Rohn

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster