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We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person’s supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.
— Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.
— George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.
— George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been
— Ricky Maye
I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel, think and want.
— Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
It`s not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it`s your sadness that does it.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Basking in the Wrong Kind of Sunshine
Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other.
— Tim Hollingworth
I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
As long as you create, you are being created.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The Dream That Dared to Become a Man
Emotions and feelings don't come out of the blue they're always triggered by memories good or bad. Males and females must process both.
— Mayra Mejia
Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.
— Mayra Mejia
I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time
— Angelos Michalopoulos, Basking in the Wrong Kind of Sunshine
To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.
— lauren klarfeld
No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness.
— Angelos Michalopoulos
My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
When you reach a certain level of peace in your life, you will find that many issues that have weighed you down in the past...disappear, become non-important, and their hold on you becomes less by the day, weeks and months. Try to get that peace in your life, especially if you fill you are struggling with inner peace today, doing so will lead to remarkable changes in your life, both inner and outer, the inner being a more fulfilled life journey and better health, the outer being a more inclusive social person who will be received much better as your inner self sparkles in a united way with your outer physical self, stop neglecting your own needs and place your own peace in order first, then you can help others achieve their peace, if an when they ask you to. ~ Roy Hale
— Roy Hale
Sometimes it's not about your opinion
—  it's about what's right...and knowing the difference.
God doesn't need me to believe in Him. Believing in myself satisfies him just as much.
— Euphoria Godsent
We are our own biggest enemy. We criticize ourselves in a harsh way about everything, our looks, our weight, our careers, our failures and success, the way people treat us; the list goes on. Instead of critiquing ourselves and putting ourselves down, how about tapping ourselves on the shoulder and saying “I did goooood”. GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK.
— Paitingroads.com
Even over the sound of a thousand voices...I still can hear my own, only after I listened to hers.
— James Emlund
I have become more aware of (1) how true emotions can feel during crucial moments, and (2) how false they really are.
— Joseph Grenny, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Don't confuse stories with facts. ...When you generate stories in the blink of an eye, you can get so caught up in the moment the you begin to believe your stories are facts.
— Kerry Patterson
Biological instincts are the key to understanding how every single human being is wired. The marvelous interplay of various brain circuits creates our instinctual reality of the daily life. If you’re conscious about the fact that there lies a complex yet vividly beautiful brain circuit mechanism behind every single impulse of your daily emotions, then you can choose how to react upon each of those impulses. You can thus program your behavioral response in a certain situation.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love Sutra: The Neuroscientific Manual of Love
The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves.
— Morris R. Gates
And then, you just realise that everything you've ever needed to succeed just lies inside of you. You just really needed to look inside and draw from the strenght that lies inside. Nothing stands impossible at that very moment. You seem SUPERHUMAN!
— Ufuoma Apoki
What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.
— James A. Moore, The Silent Army
Listen to Glisten !If your not willing to listen,How do you expect to glisten ?
— Sham  Hinduja
Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.
— Christyl Rivers
The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.
— Ron McMillan
If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.
— Ron McMillan, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing.
— Kayambila Mpulamasaka
Despise your weakness, not yourself.
— Constance Chuks Friday
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever increasing enjoyment. And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly of ourselves. Then Fate, even tangled as it is with cold wars as well as hot, cannot harm us.
— M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.
— Jane Austen, Emma
Read enough books to build your sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To turn yourself inside out to impress another human being, you will become a stranger in your own skin. Twisting oneself into knots on behalf of someone else will do two things. It will make you a scattered soul ripped to shreds with stress. And, just make the other person hungry for pretzels. Strength is marrow born. Flip the script and let that opposing force choke on the crushing mound of their own disbelief. " - A.H. Scott4/8/16
— A.H. Scott
Stay focus on your ultimate sacred goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can’t improve what we don’t assess.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection
— Gene Dunn
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.
— bell hooks
I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I learned that forgiveness isn't an instant thing
—  it must be done on a regular basis otherwise anger would keep piling up and affect our personal vibration negatively.
Self worth comes from loving yourself and not from what others may think of you.
— Karon Waddell
Living is a verb, not a noun. Joy is found in living our life not just having a life.
— Melissa Heisler, From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
Someone smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.
— Hannah Q. Mensah
A soul`s ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty.
— Michalopoulos Angelos
Without self-awareness, no changes can be made.
— Melissa Heisler, From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.
— Unarine Ramaru
When one is different, the answers have to come from within.
— Damian Maher, This One Thing
To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.
— Donna Goddard
Most of your struggles with managing your time are due to the self- limiting beliefs. Change your Mindset and you will be able to do lot more in lot less time
— Vivek Naik, Get More Done Easily: Time Management Mindsets and Simple Exercise to Organize Your Day and be More Productive in 5 Days
Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars.
— Debasish Mridha
I am fanatic book lover.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?
— Donna Goddard
Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you.
— Toni Sorenson
Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
Begin to trust thyself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life expects us to challenge the status-quo YET it holds us responsible for ONLY what we can ordinarily do. Life doesn't ask us for too much; it says "to do more, expand your lens". Expand your skills, expand your tools, expand your mind. To do more, be more!
— Asuni LadyZeal
-About potentials, ,decipher(decode),discern, decide and determine what they are
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for  Greater Success
If Cosmic Ordering isn’t for you, shape yourself so it is.
— Stephen Richards
If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.
— Anton Chekhov
It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes d worst that happens to u produce d best in you
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for  Greater Success
Life is about choosing, experiencing, learning, and choosing again.
— Melissa Heisler, From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
— Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed
Desire is the starting point of all achievement.
— Napoleon Hill
There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress:Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone.
— Mark W. Boyer
Devote yourself to reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
Nothing great can be achieved without great love.
— Debasish Mridha
What you are looking for is not out there. It is inside of you. You just have to reveal it.
— Debasish Mridha
How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live is an excellent book...very transformative and empowering..lot of practical advise for people struggling to overcome any problem in their life
— Nandita Keshavan
The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely bury it. No matter how obnoxious it was
— Constance Chuks Friday
If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility, or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law, or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step to self-improvement.
— J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
— Isaac Watts
Bad things bring out the real you
—  the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort.
The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.
— Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.
— Stephen Richards
Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that.One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn't read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books.
— Pankaj Mishra
Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. Yogi Raman was the first person to explain to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it.
— Robin S. Sharma
Let your life challenge your sacred existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it?
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
From this moment forward, I am in control of every situation. I will always know the exact right action to take, and this is so. I will now obtain vibrant good health. I will have the possessions I want, I now have the power and wisdom to bring this about, and this is so. I will have peace and harmony in my life. I will have love and abundance, and this is so. I now claim all these things for my own from this time forward.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
Change starts with awareness.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
People might talk, but minding them will not solve your problems. Thinking and then doing solves problems.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
There is nothing better for us to do than to take ourselves as we find ourselves and make the best of ourselves. If I find myself, as I did, the daughter of an artist who has left me with broadmindedness and a conveniently strong character to resist temptation, I take myself from there and accomplish what I can… I do not even deserve praise for doing my best, for that is my duty and I deserve to be blamed for not doing my best.
— Wanda Gág, Growing Pains: Diaries And Drawings From The Years 1908-17
Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You’ll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You’ll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control.
— James Emlund
I don't have much time' is a lousy excuse. There is always time, what we you don't have is the skills to manage the time.
— Alahdal A. Hussein
Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes.
— Matthew Donnelly
You are received the way you present yourself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The first story to read is the Biblical stories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,I've got an idea on where I'm going,And with the way things are going,I'm just glad to be me.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
A gift freely given,I did not ask to be in this state: living.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Initiative + Progress = Success.
— Miena Fiagome
A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.
— Unarine Ramaru
On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it.
— Jenny  Lawson
Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that “call your name” in your weakest moments—like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain “treats” you can hardly resist when they’re in your presence? Are there “goodies” that you continue to eat even after you’re full?
— Josh Bezoni
Most are constantly asking for more, but with that comes more responsibility and most aren't willing to or able to handle that. Greatness comes at a cost and requires an investment. If you don't want the work.... you don't want the prize.
— Randa Manning-Johnson
When you consciously decide to be in a good mood every morning, you create an atmosphere of joy and peace. Practice mood control daily... it will then become a habit. Don't put the control of your emotions in the hands of others.
— Randa Manning-Johnson
Some females are so "pretty", that all they have are their looks. Don't allow your attitude and ego to deduct from your pretty ladies. No matter how cute you think you are... your attitude can make you ugly real quick.
— Randa Manning-Johnson
We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep.
— Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
You will create yourself with continuous self-education.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are so many books to read. What a paradise!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When a woman embraces her inner witch, she finds new strength. She is overtaken by true serenity. She creates order where there was none before. Her eyes have now been opened.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are many things to learn, when will I finish?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I live in paradise within the pages of a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can reach higher heights by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to read daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.
— Ferris Beuller
Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.
— George Spafford
You must dare to dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What a person want in life ?1. Simple, steady life.2. Self satisfaction and craziness from work and life he live.3. Luxury/Royal life.Choice is yours, in which way you want to live.
— kurbhatt
If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.
— Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
We all have skeletons in our closets, but if you see someone who still loves you despite knowing about them, then that person is a true friend.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want.
— Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha
Call attention to your strengths instead of pointing out your weaknesses.
— Auliq Ice
What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.
— Deborah Brodie, The Path That Gets Brighter: A Devotional to Instruct, Illustrate, and Encourage Kingdom Principles
However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world.
— Jack London
Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
— Auliq Ice
Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.
— Auliq Ice
You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.
— Auliq Ice
We are always learning
—  we just have different teachers.
With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.
— Auliq Ice
Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.
— Auliq Ice
The sense of your own experience will grow along with your confidence.
— Auliq Ice
Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.
— Auliq Ice
Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.
— Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino
Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.
— Regina R. Carver, How Will I Achieve My Goals?: Six Simple Steps to Proven Success
If we give the supply of growth, self-improvement, self-education, into our lives, life would favour us
— Sunday Adelaja
-. Every destiny comes with a destiny activator or proof producer. Someone God will use to bring out he best in you
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Achievers Handbook 2: Over 100 Inspirational Keys to fulfill your Destiny
I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win.
— Sira Masetti
As soon as you start wanting something, then your eyes can see; your mind will be open to identify all the possible ways of obtaining it.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
If you feel that you are going without go within
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
In order to love others I need to be full of it myself
— Odille Rault
Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
I remember all of it, not because I meditate on it. No. I remember it because with each step I make toward my goals, I am reminded of how they said I couldn't do it. The more I achieve, the more they are proved wrong, in my mind. It's like motivation. Attacks on your dreams are never forgotten because they become your fuel.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Your opposition is the most powerful tool you can use to rise up.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Not knowing what to do with your life is a painful thing.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
By not making your own choices, you give up power to change your life.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Power given up is power given away.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
In life, most decisions are a case of let go to get.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Nothing is finished unless it is started. So just start where you are.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly
— Matthew Donnelly
The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
... a door shuts in my face, but my face is already looking at another door, wondering when that one will close too and how many good things I would have gotten out of it when it does.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Having a head is not enough, you must get ahead
— Saji Ijiyemi
Freedom to be yourself is among the most valuable freedoms I know.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Doors close. That's life, but they don't necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence
—  it is your own responsibility.
Practicing security means continually turning towards the best version of yourself.
— Eve Rickert, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.
— Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.
— Rebecca   Warner, He's Just A Man: Making the Most of Your Womanly Power
The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Focus on making yourself better, not thinking you are better.
— Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors
The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
The key to sticking with any diet is learning how to control hunger and manage cravings.
— Josh Bezoni
What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
If you emit positive energy, even people who don't like you will not be negative when around you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
You have only 3 days-yesterday is won or lost-today is just with you.Tomorrow you have not.Act now, unlock your potentials
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
You MUST know You to do YOU!
— Anne Thomas
Persistence is key when you want to achieve. You can't afford to quit just because you don't feel good about failure.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Like David: Let not your age limit what God can do. Go confront the Goliaths of life.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Heroes and Heroines of our Faith and Types of Faith
What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.
— Terry Pratchett
You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.
— Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.
— Steve Siebold, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class: The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones
Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it’s blown, opportunities take to their heels!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.
— Kaiylah Muhammad, Out of the Cage
Learn to say no, know when to say yes, and use the words ‘I choose.’ It is the key that will open you to limitless manifestation of your beingness.
— Réné Gaudette
Keep working on yourself
—  eventually you will get to the point where you don't need anyone else's love to define you.
Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.
— Steve Siebold
What I’ve always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I’m at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes.
— Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords
If thousand people say you can't, and you alone believe you can, you will make it happen! But if million people say you can, and you alone believe you can't, you can't make it happen. It all depends on you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Creating Identity
— Mohit Manke
It's all about how you feel, not how you look
— Sean Covey
Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Two basic principles
—  reading God’s word and praying regularly.
I have come to terms with the reality this life may not bring another romantically to share this journey with me. I do this not just for me, but for everyone who spends their life seeking and wishing. When we are wishing, we are missing.
— Juls Amor, THE YEAR OF THE FROG
In discovery- driven planning, learning is the essential unit of progress. A course correction isn’t equivalent to failure, it’s an opportunity to re-calibrate so you can move more quickly up the learning curve.
— Whitney Johnson, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
— Napoleon Hill
Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Remember who you are by Gods divine plan and strive to fit into his divine pattern.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself.
— Russell Kyle
Self discovery is the best investment that you can make.
— Michele Scholz-Evers, There's Always a Rainbow: It's the Thought that Matters
About potentials, ,decipher(decode),discern, decide and determine what they are
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is defenseless against your womanly power.
— Rebecca   Warner, He's Just A Man: Making the Most of Your Womanly Power
It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?
— Shannon L. Alder
To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.
— Shannon L. Alder
Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true,...
— S.D. Gordon
Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain!
— Tai Lopez
Even the top motivational speakers and inspirational writers are constantly reading books from other self-improvement people, because they truly understand that knowledge has no limit to it.
Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise.
— William George Jordan, The Kingship of Self-Control: Individual Problems and Possibilities
It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.
— Vironika Tugaleva
You can turn your anger into positive energy and do good things that will turn your life around
— Mxolisi Mashiloane, How to deal with anger & Learn to control your mind
I try not to let other people's problems problem me.
— J. Richard Singleton
Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves! I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant!
— Daniel Petra, Missing Links: Practical and Suprisingly Effective Tools for Self-Transformation ... and Behavior Modification
Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities.
— Jiang Rong
If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from
— Jason Aites, Failure Is Not An Option: The Best Guide To Turn Your Failure Into A Real Sucess
Self-change can only come after self-understanding.
— Rob R Morris
Paradise Is The Absolute Self~Respect.
— Alexia Penteleon de aRcturi
Being afraid does not define your character, but what you do in the face of fear does.
— Rob R Morris
We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely control our own destiny.
— Rob R Morris
Learn to control the conversation you have with yourself and you will be unstoppable in your pursuits.
— Rob R Morris
We are not defined by the adversities in our lives, we are defined by how we manage them.
— Rob R Morris
Master thyself, seek to know thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The habit of upgrading your mind with self-development messages is highly important, if you desire to reach the pinnacle of your true destiny in life.
2.	Evolve and Be God: As we invoke the presence of Source, holding the focus through our mantras, we are drawing more and more proximity to the object of worship and gradually, we attain all the attributes we are invoking, i.e., we slowly evolve to be Angelic, invoking the presence of God/Source.
— Nandhiji, Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
I thought you might appreciate this.....“Excerpt from my lecture Sunday February 22, 2015 at Soul-Esteem Center10 Commandments - God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free will and felt later it necessary to write the 10 Commandants as a reminder of how God wanted his creations to perform. The 10 Commandants contain 5 positives and five negatives”― I. Alan Appt, The Strength in Knowingtags: motivational, philosophy, psychology, self-helpPeace to all,Alan Appt
— I. Alan Appt, The Strength in Knowing