Personal Development Quotes

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” ~ Miriam Beard

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” ~ Italo Calvino

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” ~ Frank Herbert

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” ~ Lillian Smith

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ~ Seneca

“The answer to finding a wonderful, loving connection with someone else is having that union with yourself in all the relationships in your life. The greatest relationship you have, from the beginning of your life until the end, should be with YOU.” ~ Derek O’Neill

“Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” ~ Walter Anderson

“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.” ~ Dalai Lama

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama

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“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“It is the leader’s role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.” ~ Donald T. Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” ~ Socrates

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ~ Maya Angelou

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.” ~ Charles Kingsley

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~ Richard Steele, The Tatler

“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.” ~ Max DePree