quotes of introspection
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy
and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
*Theodore Roosevelt {1858-1919 26th US President}
“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s
imagination.”
*Ellen Key {1849-1926 Swedish Author}
“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re
willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being
a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”
*Barbara Sher {American Author}
“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
*Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Essayist}
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.”
*Charles Buxton
{1823-1871 British Author }
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”
*Napoleon Bonaparte
{1769-1821 French General & Emperor }
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.”
*Pearl S. Buck
{1892-1973 American Novelist}
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing
you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me
what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the
most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself.
I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my
life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the
things that I aspired to becoming.”
*Anthony Robbins {American Author & Peak Performance Expert}
“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much,
and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing
at all.”
*Georges Bernanos {1888-1948 French Novelist & Political Writer}
“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few
who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
*Herbert N. Casson {American Author}
“How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors
of the mind. They reflect thinking.”
*David J. Schwartz {American Trainer & Author}
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions
as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
*Dr. Denis Waitley {1933- American Author, Speaker & Trainer}
“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are
doing.”
*Dale Carnegie {1888-1955 American Author & Achievement Expert}
“My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other
hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have
to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not
the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not
intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and
I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the
world around me, the better company I am for myself.”
*Noel Coward {1899-1973 British Writer}
“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent;
and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is
steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate
happiness.”
*Virginia Woolf {1882-1941 British Novelist & Essayist}
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