Personal Growth and Self Development Quotes
The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Cicero
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Juvenal
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Abd-el-Kadar
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
Lord Chesterfield
God ever works with those who work with will.
Aeschylus
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Sir William Temple
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
