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Never invest in any kind of relationship with anyone who is not willing to work on themselves just a little every day. A person who takes no interest in any form of self-improvement, personal development or spiritual growth will also not be inclined to make much of an effort building a truly meaningful connection with you. A relationship with only one partner willing to do the work ceases to be a relationship. And as anyone who has been there will tell you - it's pointless to try and dance the tango solo.
— Anthon St. Maarten
Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
— Shannon L. Alder
We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.
— Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife
When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.
— Christopher Earle
Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.
— Leslie Tayne, Life & Debt: A Fresh Approach to Achieving Financial Wellness
The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.
— Unarine Ramaru
Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?
— Robert A. Glover
Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
Life is a never ending journey of reaching out of our comfort zone. We can always reach new levels.
— Matthew Donnelly
We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.
— Paresh Shah
The man that wars and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars and judges himself is eternally found.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
The man that wars with and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars with and judges himself is eternally found.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Belief is the essential ingredient for success, thus if you believe, you can achieve, for real you will achieve.
— Auliq Ice, The Secret of Greatness
Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.
— Christopher Earle
Each person has to face this challenge – you must search inside yourself. The props – surroundings, interactions, rituals, customs and superstitions – are just palliatives. You have to achieve your balance on your own; it has to come from the self. Once you get there, you can afford the luxury of lavishing your life with the pleasures of your drifting journey.
— Andre Averbug, The Drifting Self: A Novella
There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.
— T.Taylor
As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu.
— Chris Matakas
I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.
— Chris Matakas
I am a better son, brother, friend, and teacher because of the daily sacrifice and effort I put toward my craft. WIth all the advantages modern society has created, it has left us wanting. We no longer need to struggle to survive. Our basic needs are now met with minimal physical strife or mental challenge. Technology and the advances of man have left us over-stressed and under-performing. We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.
— Chris Matakas
The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?
— Chris Matakas
Devoting yourself to a particular art is invaluable. The art becomes our vehicle with which we drive down the road of life. We use this vehicle to learn about ourselves and this place, to conquer fears, to become more of what we already are. In my own life, I have found most valuable the transferable skills of learning from jiu jitsu to all other facets of day to day study. In devoting myself with such commitment to this art, in undertaking the task of understanding jiu jitsu to whatever degree by circumstance allows, I have unknowingly learned how to learn.
— Chris Matakas
The Mirror Prayer I see you man in the mirror. I see you and raise you. I will be better today than you were yesterday, and tomorrow you will be better than I was today.
— Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
He embraced his weirdness, and it was nice.
— Amy Zhang
What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.
— Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.
— Matthew Donnelly
In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.
— Matthew Donnelly
Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.
— Craig Mercier
Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul.
— Matthew Donnelly
The Best Health Care Plan Is A Self Care Plan
— Nina Leavins
To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi
— Pat Williams, Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
— Augustine of Hippo
The day you subscribe to being loved by everyone is the day you stop growing.
— Mr Imbuya
It's not the end of the road, it's just the end of the road work.
— Mary-Ellen Peters
Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.
— Jim Rohn
If we view ourselves to achieve a great life and DESIRE to fulfill our visions then we will do nothing but act accordingly regardless of the setbacks we occur on the journey. "I am a unique individual who is on the journey for greatness and things will get in my way but I will figure out away around them or just go right through them with the conviction of my vision
— Matthew Donnelly
Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today
— Pat Williams
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
— Thomas Sprat
Whenever you get a clear impulse to do or try something different, especially when the idea seems to "come out of nowhere", it's usually something that will turn out to be immensely important to your life path.
— Susan Biali, Live a Life You Love: 7 Steps to a Healthier, Happier, More Passionate You
You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.
— Bob Proctor
All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition.
— Bob Proctor
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
— Bob Proctor
When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the law that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.
— Bob Proctor
Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.
— Bob Proctor
I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.
— Bob Proctor
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
— Bob Proctor
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
— Bob Proctor
In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.
— J.R.  Young
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
Your 'Ideal Parallel World' must be so grand that if you told it to 99% of your friends, they would laugh - some because they would think you were joking and some because they would think the goal impossible.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.
— Napoleon Hill
He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
— Irving Stone
Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.
— David Nicholls, One Day
It's the will that gives us the ability to focus
— Bob Proctor
I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.
— Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
I was born a strong, powerful woman, but was raised to be a victim.
— Sharon Law Tucker
All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus
— Bob Proctor
The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
— Bob Proctor
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.
— Bob Proctor
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.
— Bob Proctor
Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level
— Saji Ijiyemi
Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
— Ryan Lilly
Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.
— Ryan Lilly
What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.
— Ryan Lilly
In the energy field, you have the power to create synchronicity at any time. Feel the joy, surprise, and perfect fit of connecting with the very person who is part of igniting your desire.
— Jeanne McElvaney, Time Slipping
Love me for who I am, not what you want me to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your success can’t be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.
— Rhondra O. Willis
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
— Sanhita Baruah
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
— Jay Samit
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure
— Jay Samit
Disruptors don't have to discover something new
—  they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Note To Self!I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!
— Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
— Jay Samit
A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly...
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
It occurred to me to look up and around at the stars in the clear sky, at the trees in the dark, at the half moon. I was missing them because I was caught in my head. I wasn't living right now. I was thinking to the future, to the past. I wasn't present. This is one of my greatest weaknesses, and one I have a greater realization of, only because I allowed some of my past to die so that my present could rush in to fill it.
— Jennifer DeLucy
Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Only a coward will not make the necessary changes in his or her life to make it a better one.
— Jonna Erlandson
Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.
— Jay Samit
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
— Jay Samit
Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.
— Jay Samit
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
— Jay Samit
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
If life, you get what you believe you deserve.
— Jay Samit
A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.
— Jay Samit
You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
— Jay Samit
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
— Jay Samit
A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
— Jay Samit
A dream with a deadline is a goal.
— Jay Samit
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.
— Jay Samit
If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
— Jay Samit
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.
— Franz Bardon
Fair only counts with people who are fair.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Don't be limited by your limitations.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Security doesn't rob ambition
—  the illusion of security robs ambition.
Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
All Disruption starts with introspection.
— Jay Samit
Whoever controls the money, controls you!
— Sharon Law Tucker
Self-esteem, self confidence
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing,” he explains. “It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.
— David Heinemeier Hansson
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Don't be afraid to say "No". It's empowering. Remember, a "Yes" is a commitment. Give them wisely.
— Sharon Law Tucker
It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.
— Sharon Law Tucker, How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
Manage your life as you manage your money.
— Sharon Law Tucker
Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.
— Sharon Law Tucker
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.
— Steve Goodier
Taking time to look back, is a foundation on course to build a stable future.
— Unarine Ramaru
The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.
— Shannon L. Alder
All men are created equal.' That doesn’t mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have the same skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. Each of us has the capacity to dream big, to assess and accept the aspects of our reality that are standing in our way, learn from them, overcome them and succeed.
— Justin Young
Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you- as mirrors showing you "Who You Are.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beloved,if you refuse to go within...you will, sadly, go without.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
What are we if we are not disciplined?
— Rob Liano
When you lay your head on the pillow at the end of the night, can you think of three things you did during the day to make your life better? Did you nourish your body? Your spirit? Your mind? If not, get back up and do something that good for YOU.
— Toni Sorenson
Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is the key for self liberation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.
— Kelly G. Wilson, Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth
— Anshul Dubey
The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Seeing each choice as a kind of energy can empower us. To say "yes" might feel like a dripping faucet. To say "no" might feel like a playful puppy. In feeling the energy, we get to choose beyond what is expected and routine.
— Jeanne McElvaney, Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
adversity is a great tool to self discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be yourself, be brave.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you’ve always been poor, does that mean you can’t be rich?If you’ve always been sad, does that mean you can never be happy?If you’ve always been alone, does that mean you’ll never find true love?If you’ve always had bad grades, does that mean you’re not smart?If you’ve failed time and time again, does that mean you’ll never be successful?The answer to these questions…? YES! But only if you see yourself as a poor, sad, lonely, stupid failure.
— Justin Young
Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the “What ifs” and “If onlys.
— Justin Young
In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen?
— Justin Young
Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.
— Tim Urban
Our attitudes are the results of who we believe ourselves to be.
— Justin Young
You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.
— Richie Norton
You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.
— Richie Norton
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.
— Shannon L. Alder
No work you'll ever complete
— no project you'll ever attempt
When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God – saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it – this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness – he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be like an addiction, the all-determining addiction of his life, for it would stand so clearly before his eyes that disappointment is not a hot, destroying poison, but rather a cool calming balm that opens our eyes to the real contours of ourselves.
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.
— J. Loren Norris
How you respond to what is happening in your life can make a difference. Your conduct in the confusion, your resolve while enduring pain and your positive thought process during the tribulation can help you handle what is happening in your life. Those are the proskairos moments that make the difference as you are maneuvering the waves of life. Those moments are filled with the presence of God and how you respond and behave in those moments makes all of the difference.
— Dr. Glen A. Staples
Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement―not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to developing relationships. They only want to be seen with you because they want to establish association. These people want the recognition affiliated with your success but they are not willing to go through what you did to achieve it.
— Dr. Glen A. Staples
Conquer yourself
—  the world is you!
Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on how you respond. Faith does not need your emotions to confirm what you are believing God to do in your life. We should understand what we are feeling and why we are feeling it but we should not be distracted or controlled by how we feel. Have faith.
— Dawn M. Harvey, Unlocking The Presence of Power
Choices create our map as we travel toward the new reality we are creating ~
— Jeanne McElvaney, Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers
Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim
— Ellyn Spragins, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
You´re going to have to learn how to pat yourself on the back eventually. Start now. It´s not gloating.It´s taking pleasure in life´s goodness
— Ellyn Spragins, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
Our actions are reflections, not of who we are, but who we think we are.
— Justin Young
My health is like a garden
—  my choices have a powerful effect on what blossoms and thrives. Every moment is the perfect time to weed old beliefs and nurture myself with empowering thoughts.
Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
Education is a light for self awaken.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack
— Ellyn Spragins, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
In stillness I notice how time and space disappear. All there is is the present moment and my willingness to listen...to allow the stillness to speak-Eileen Fisher
— Ellyn Spragins, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
The rhythm of life runs in cycles. There are times in the darkness and times in the light. The energy of life is like the rain forest in Borneo. Things live, grow, die, fall to the forest floor, rot and then they are born again-Olympia Dukakis
— Ellyn Spragins, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.
— J. Loren Norris
How do you start you ask? You start by starting.
— Rick Ward
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill
Only when we are truly lost are we free to choose our own path.
— Hugo Embleton-Black
Idleness is seductive.Just relax and do nothing, it says.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Justice
If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Nobody's better than you and you're no better than anybody.
— Mary Mihalic, Made to Make It
Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence
— Mac James
Compare yourself to no one else but yourself. It’s not about anybody else’s anything. It’s about YOU. Are you the best you? That’s all you need to worry about. Imagine how awesome it would be if everyone just worried about making themselves the best they could be!
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
You only know how you feel, and you can only guess how others feel.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
And I know that I’m not perfect,But this path feels perfect.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Your imagination is the most powerful tool to create a great life.
— Thomas Flindt, Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success
Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.
— Rob Liano
Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.
— Mary Mihalic, The 40 Best Business Tips No One's Ever Told You
There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no matter how small, is a difficult endeavor but nothing is more liberating. To be honest with ourselves is the fastest path to self-acceptance. Being authentic about who we are, actually enriches the relationships around us. The truth sets us free and that’s no lie. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.
— Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa
Self improvement can be very challenging, but where there's a will, there's a way. Make your own way!
— Melica Niccole
Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?
— Ruthy Alon, Mindful Spontaneity: Lessons in the Feldenkrais Method
Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
So much done and so much learned, but so much more to do and see, and learn.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Create a great future. Be happy NOW.
— Thomas Flindt, Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success
You change the future by taking control of the present. Know how to use your minutes and hours.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.
— Thomas Flindt, Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success
If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.
— Isaiah Hankel, Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
— Timothy Ferriss
No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.
— Moffat Machingura
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
— Maxwell Maltz
Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
If you're about to take a risk--one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear--you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.
— Kamal Ravikant
Awareness is the fuel that powers change
— Theresa French
The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.
— Scott Marquart
Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
— Herbert Hoover
Suffering is when we resist the moment.
— Kamal Ravikant