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Quotations
 | Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes |
 | The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 6 likes |
 | He who moves not forward, goes backward. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | For our improvement we need a mirror. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 5 likes |
 | He teaches me to be good that does me good. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 4 likes |
 | Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 3 likes |
| We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
| Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | He not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 3 likes |
| Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
| Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, scepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
 | I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 3 likes |
 | Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
 | There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 2 likes |
| You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
| Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself. |
 | One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. |
 | Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. |
 | One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man. |
 | Science enriches the mind. Literature enriches the personality. |
 | What a terrible ascent from the ape to man, from man to God. |
 | When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. |
 | Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. |
| Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. |
 | If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. |
 | Man can only be built by pursuing what exceeds him. |
 | Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. |
| To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. |
 | True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. |
 | Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. |
| Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. |
| If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer (The Colossus of Maroussi, 1941) |
 | If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others. |
| If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. |
 | The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. |
 | We turn not older with years but newer every day. |
 | I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
Ancient Greek
 | Do not act as if you are going to live ten thousand years. The inevitable hangs over you. As long as you live, while it is in your power, be good. Μη ως μύρια μέλλων έτη ζην. Το χρεών επήρτηται. Έως ζης, έως έξεστιν, αγαθός γενού. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IV, 16 11 likes |
 | If you want to become good, first believe that you are bad. Ει βούλει αγαθός είναι, πρώτον πίστευσον ότι κακός εί. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 7 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | You make me want to be a better man. — from the film As Good As it Gets (1997) 2 likes |
