Growth
Quotes about personal and professional development
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks—but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times.
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
Sometimes you have to give up to go up.
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
I was once asked if a big businessman ever reached his objectives. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective, he was not a big businessman.
You practice and you get better. It's very simple.
I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Those who cannot adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
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"If you're not failing every now and then, you're playing it way too safe."
"Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition—such as lifting weights—we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity."
"We need to accept that we don't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success. It's part of success."
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand."
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."
"That which hurts, also instructs."
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."