PERSONAL GROWTH & SUCCESS

      New results do not come without change.

      Real change does not come about without personal growth.

      Transformation is an inside job.

"He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
-- Lao Tsu

"Learning must be lifelong -- it's the stuff that progress is made of."
-- Confucious

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
-- Hindu Proverb

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
-- Aristotle

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
-- Socrates

"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."
-- Wang Yang-Ming

"You cannot trancend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."
-- Sri Nisargadatta Mahara

"The best of all are those in which some inner journey, some adventure in self, is the real point."
-- Salman Rushdie

"The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical."
-- Alvin Toeffler

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman

"We can never really change someone; people must change themselves."
-- Stephen R. Covey

"Your hopes for external success begin to mean something when you decide you are willing to undergo inner change and growth."
-- Grady L. Dobbs

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
-- Chinese proverb

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
-- Muhammad Ali

"The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win."
-- Bobby Knight

"If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you."
-- Eric Allenbaugh

"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built."
-- Jim Rohn

"If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
-- William Feather

"Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future."
-- Brian Tracy

"Leaders know that working on themselves is a full-time job. The more and better their self-work, the better work they can get from those they employ and the less fault and complaints they have with those around them."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
-- Les Brown

"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."
-- Tom Hopkins

"If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you have...you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation, you cannot do it."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Income seldom exceeds personal development."
-- Jim Rohn

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
-- Charles Du Bois

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
-- Anna Quindlen

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
-- Tuli Kupferberg

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
-- Jim Rohn

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it."
-- John Ruskin

"Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey and, when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning."
-- Robin Hobb

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
-- Zig Ziglar

"We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way."
-- Earl Nightingale

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."
-- Madame Marie Curie

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"Know your qualifications; realize your responsibilities; grasp your opportunities; banish fear to the sidelines -- and success is inevitable."
-- Jerome A. Waterman

"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success."
-- Brian Tracy

"You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future."
-- Zig Ziglar

"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you."
-- Dr. Robert Anthony

"The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.."
-- Ralph Marston

"Success is finding and doing to the best of your ability, in each moment of your life, what you enjoy most doing, what you can do best, and what has the greatest possibility of providing the means to live as you would like to live in relation to yourself and all persons you value."
-- Nido Qubein

"You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have, each and everyone of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field -- if you would only embrace it and use it."
-- Napoleon Hill

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
-- George Washington

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
-- John Foster Dulles

"Success is not the result of making money, making money is the result of success."
-- James A. Ray

"You must have a room, and a certain hour of the day, where you do not know what is in the morning paper. A place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might become. At first you may think nothing is happening. But if you have a sacred space and take advantage of it and use it every day, something magical will happen."
-- Joseph Campbell


"The degree to which a person can grow
is directly proportional to
the amount of truth he can accept about himself
without running away."

-- Leland Val Van De Wall

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   Mind/Thought & Success

   Visualization & Success

   Personal Growth & Success

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   Strategy/Preparation & Success

   Service & Success

   Projection/Energy & Success

   Action & Success

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