Personal development Quotes - Take Life To The Next Level

'Personal development' Quotes

What follows are various personal development quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotations on developing persona and quotes about persona development available elsewhere. Here I hope these 'personal development' quotes help you in your quest to boost your life and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy these personal development quotes and benefit from them.

'Personal development' Quotations

There is nothing that fails like success. G. K. Chesterton

The whole of life consists of wanting and not-succeeding, succeeding and not-wanting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only effort worth making is the only one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature. Paul Bowles

Reading is getting more difficult; more gets stirred up. Elias Canetti

It is better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle it without debate. Joseph Joubert

He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is. Nigerian proverb

Great desire obtains little. Burmese proverb

What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. Dutch proverb

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte

From my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'personal development quotes' theme.

'Personal development' quotes - from my notebooks

Sometimes it takes a lot or wrong answers to get to the right answer. Or we can find that travelling down a lot of wrong roads allows us to find the right road.

Live in the pursuit of excellence.

Life is what you make of it.

Communications - the bricks on which life's house is built.

We learn the most from own activity and experiences, successes and failures.

How often we notice that much is said while little or nothing is done.

Life is simple; it's people who complicate it.

Build on your strengths and you will go so far. Turn your weaknesses into strengths and further still will you go.

Life is not your enemy. It is not something to be resisted. Relax and savor each day and life's rewards will likely be yours.

Anything you can do to help yourself will expose you to new situations, new circumstances. And you will learn to grow and develop along the way.

When the chips are down, don't stop and try and pick one up to 'eat' ( or analyze or ponder too long or sit and take the weight off your feet, for too long) - or you will miss your ride . . .

I hope you have enjoyed this 'personal development quotes' page, and enjoy the rest of the website. Martin