Growth

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Keep your eye on the Eternal and your intellect will grow.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism

“What a man can be, he must be.”

Abraham Maslow

Motivation and Personality

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”

Abraham Maslow

Motivation and Personality

“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”

Abraham Maslow

Toward a Psychology of Being

“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

Brian Tracy

Effective Leadership

“Excuse-itis, the failure disease, will ruin any chance for success.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“How you think determines how you act. How you act, in turn, determines how others react to you.”

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

“Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”

Eric Butterworth

In the Flow of Life

“This challenge did not come to stay. It came to pass.”

Eric Butterworth

In the Flow of Life

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

Leo Buscaglia

Living, Loving and Learning

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Leo Buscaglia

Love

“Life is difficult.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”

M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”

Richard Bach

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.”

Susan Jeffers

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“Love yourself, a lot.”

Wayne Dyer

Your Erroneous Zones

“You are what you choose today, not what you have chosen before.”

Wayne Dyer

Your Erroneous Zones

“Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity.”

Adam Grant

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most.”

Adam Grant

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.”

Adam Grant

Think Again

“We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices.”

Bruce Lipton

Spontaneous Evolution

“To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.”

Carol Dweck

Mindset

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

Deepak Chopra

The Path to Love

“Always do your best.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”

Eckhart Tolle

Stillness Speaks

“Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It!

“Always put your money back into your business.”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Crushing It!

“Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.”

Gregg Braden

Resilience from the Heart

“There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.”

Gregg Braden

The Divine Matrix

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”

James Clear

Atomic Habits

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

James Clear

Atomic Habits

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.”

Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right.”

Ken Wilber

The Simple Feeling of Being

“In reality, failure is simply feedback. It's not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable.”

Lewis Howes

The School of Greatness

“Abundance is not something available for sale or purchase. It's something that we tap into, build, and grow.”

Lisa Nichols

Abundance Now

“To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.”

Lynne McTaggart

The Field

“In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.”

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Life Visioning

“The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“When life gets difficult, I've found that the best thing to do is ask myself a simple question: What is this here to teach me?”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change!”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“I believe that gratitude is one of the few attitudes that can measurably change lives.”

Robert Emmons

Thanks!

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Tony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within

“The past does not equal the future.”

Tony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within

“We've progressed as human beings in terms of our physical evolution, but not so much in terms of our mental progression.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book I (trans. W.D. Ross)

“Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book II

“Never in this world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. This is an eternal law.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 1, v. 5 (trans. Eknath Easwaran)

“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 12, v. 165 (trans. Acharya Buddharakkhita)

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 15 (trans. James Legge)

“At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book II, Ch. 4 (trans. James Legge)

“The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 16 (trans. James Legge)

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 17 (trans. James Legge)

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbours.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book IV, Ch. 25 (trans. James Legge)

“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”

Confucius

The Analects, Book VII, Ch. 21 (trans. James Legge)

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Epictetus

Discourses

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus

Discourses, Book 3.23

“It is not possible to live pleasantly without living prudently and honorably and justly.”

Epicurus

Principal Doctrines, V

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. When his work is done, the people say, 'Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!'”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 64 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 76 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)

“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.”

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 8 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays)

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 11.18

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 6.6

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 76

“Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.”

Matthew Ferry

Quiet Mind Epic Life