1,999 Quotes About Personal-development

Knocking people down a few pegs, verbally or in the silent comfort of your own mind, is an easy but artificial and corrupt method for building yourself up. Everyone with an inferiority complex has a shadow of a superiority complex buried inside them somewhere

The reason so many people are unfulfilled and miserable in life is that they take the well-trodden road of shallow materialism, one-upmanship and empty goals for self-aggrandisement. They spend their time investing in self-serving ambitions with the intention of either bettering themselves or impressing other people.

You are too great an entity to keep yourself all to yourself: purposefulness in life comes through sharing what you have to offer with others

When our goals in life strive to positively influence and impact the lives of others, our confidence shifts. Whilst we may feel the pressure to ensure we fulfill our goals for the good of other people, our motivation becomes more powerful; we become more willing to take risks, lose face, fail and make sacrifices for the good of the bigger picture.

Whilst people may say or do things which hurt you and feed into your negative beliefs, no one can make you think in a particular way about yourself: how you respond mentally and emotionally is down to you.

You are not the sum of the mistakes you’ve made in life: you’re not a failed employee, parent, spouse, child or student; you’re not the embarrassing or stupid things you’ve said in moments of naivety or anger. The outcomes you get in life don’t define you and shouldn’t be part of your identity. Your value lies in your ups and your downs and the lessons you’ve learned from them all - failures and successes.

Through most people think of Karma as the past coming back to affect their future. I see the concept of karma as not in the past but as an immediate result of your current actions.

People's real character is determined by the books they read, and by the company they keep.

Envisioning yourself as a fluid, ever-changing work-in-progress creates courage and hope about building a life in conscious connection to others and to yourself.