1,638 Quotes About Values

Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything.

The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.

To take a stand based on the fickleness of the culture verses the weight of principle is to believe that part of standing up is falling off a cliff.

Our perceptions of reality are only a relationship to what is actually out there. Perceptions are influenced by context, by previous life experience, and by our tendency to seek outevidence to confirm our expectations. This drive to confirm, asargued by social physiologists, results in what is known as self fulfilling prophecy.

Many of us have allowed well-meaning parents,teachers, religious leaders and peers to tell us that there issomething fundamentally wrong with us if we don’t believe as they do. Simply put, we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.

I don’t understand why people are always putting us down, instead of encouraging us to become great. Because, when you do become great, you will give me a world that I would not have any other way. We all havesomething to give one another.

I might wish to consider that upon which I stand, for in fact I may be standing on nothing which means that in reality I am not standing at all.

if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: “I want to live a life like everybody else!” By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.

If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility