This document contains a collection of quotes on various topics including personal development, relationships, success, happiness, leadership, and life. Some of the key ideas expressed are: 1) Personal development is the greatest gift you can give others, and focusing on developing yourself allows you to better support others in developing themselves. 2) True love and security come from within, not from depending on others or gifts and promises. 3) Finding purpose and meaning in life comes from devoting yourself to loving and helping others in your community. 4) Happiness is about balance and harmony, not intensity, and success should be defined by one's own definition rather than by external measures.

1. Favorite quotes

2. “The greatest gift you can give somebody is your
own personal development. I used to say, "If you
will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I
say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take
care of you for me.”

3. "After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and
chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company
doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with
your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of an adult, not the grief
of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today because
tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of
falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine
burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate
your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to leave you flowers. And
you learn that you really can endure; You really are strong, you really do
have worth. And you learn, and you learn
With every goodbye you learn." - Veronica A Shoffstall

4. "So many people walk around with a meaningless
life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy
doing things they think are important. This is
because they're chasing the wrong things. The way
you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself
to loving others, devote yourself to your
community around you, and devote yourself to
creating something that gives you purpose and
meaning."
- Tuesdays With Morrie

5. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of
balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.” - Thomas
Merton

6. "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my
life and never seen."
John Steinbeck

7. "I love you not only for what you are, but for
what I am when I am with you. I love you not only
for what you have made of yourself, but for what
you are making of me. I love you for the part of me
that you bring out." - Roy Croft

8. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and
comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error
or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best,
knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst,
if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor
defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

9. "After you become a millionaire, you can give all of
your money away because what's important is not
the million dollars; what's important is the
person you have become in the process of becoming
a millionaire." -- Jim Rohn

10. "We generally change ourselves for one of two
reasons: inspiration or desperation." -- Jim Rohn

11. “Question everything and think for yourself.” – Kim
Kiyosaki

12. "The twin killers of success are impatience and
greed." -- Jim Rohn

13. “They say a person needs just three things to be
truly happy in this world: someone to love,
something to do, and something to hope for.” - Tom
Bodett

14. “Lots of people say, "I do [insert title here] job and
I'm responsible for..."
Few people say, "I create jobs."
Be one of the few.” – Kim Kiyosaki

15. "Civilization is the intelligent management of
human emotions." -- Jim Rohn

16. •
“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If you’re not
growing, you’re contracting. If you’re not moving
forward, you’re moving backward.”

17. "You must take personal responsibility. You
cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or
the wind, but you can change yourself. That is
something you have charge of. You don't have
charge of the constellations, but you do have
charge of whether you read, develop new skills,
and take new classes." -- Jim Rohn

18. “take care of your body. It is the only place you
have to live.” – jim rohn

19. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living
someone else's life." -- Steve Jobs

20. "The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your
own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you
will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I
say, ‘I will take care of me for you if you will take
care of you for me.’" -- Jim Rohn

21. “In order to sustain the integrity of the
organization, a business must dedicate time and
resources to education, leadership development,
and personnel development.
Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.” –
Robert Kiyosaki

22. “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was
meaning to read.” – lemony snicket

23. "If you were to show me your current financial
plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go
across the country and lecture on it? If the
answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’
Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan
that is taking you to the places you want to go?" -Jim Rohn

24. “One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know
what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live
successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we
also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising
to marketing, etcetera. These are hugely powerful forces that define what
we want and how we view ourselves. What I want to argue for is not that
we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure
that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that
we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because
it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an
idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it
isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.” – alain de botton

25. Whenever anything happens to you, your brain asks two
questions: Will this mean pain or pleasure? What must I
do now to avoid pain and/or gain pleasure? The
answers are based on generalizations—the beliefs
you've formed about what leads to pain and pleasure.
While such shortcuts allow us to function, they can
also severely limit our lives. Some people, for example,
have generalized that they're incompetent because
they've occasionally failed to follow up, and
unfortunately, generalizations can become selffulfilling prophecies. – tony robins

26. “Be careful of retirement plans. Often they tend to
be ‘savings plans’ more than they are ‘investing
plans’. Saving does not create wealth.” – robert
kiyosaki

27. “Most dreams take a lot of hard work, commitment
and training. If yours doesn't, you're not dreaming
big enough.” – Robert Kiyosaki

28. "To become financially independent you must turn
part of your income into capital; turn capital into
enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit
into investment; and turn investment into financial
independence." -- Jim Rohn

29. “Disturb us, Lord,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
When we are too well pleased with And in our efforts to build a new earth,
ourselves,
We have allowed our vision
When our dreams have come true
Of the new Heaven to dim.
because we have
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
dreamed too little,
To venture on wider seas
When we arrived safely
Where storms will show your mastery;
Because we sailed too close to the
Where losing sight of land,
shore.
We shall find the stars.
Disturb us, Lord, when
We ask You to push back
With the abundance of things we
The horizons of our hopes;
possess
And to push into the future
We have lost our thirst
In strength, courage, hope, and love.”
For the waters of life;
- Sir Francis Drake
Having fallen in love with life,

30. “Willpower is the key to success. Successful
people strive no matter what they feel by applying
their will to overcome apathy, doubt, or fear.”

31. “I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do
everything… at least not at the same time. So think
of your priorities not in terms of what activities
you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

32. “death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste
time… it tells us to tell each other right now that
we love each other.”

33. “if your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader.”

34. “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,
motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”

35. “dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die
today.”

36. “people often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well neither does bathing – that’s why we
recommend it daily.”

37. “opportunities to find deeper powers within
ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

38. “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating
the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”

39. “you will find as you look back upon your life that
the moments when you have really lived are the
moments when you have done things in the spirit of
love.”

40. “Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your
way through life, letting your heart guide you like
a lantern in the dark.”

41. “there is no starting or stopping – only doing.”

42. “pain is a relatively objective, physical
phenomenon; suffering is our psychological
resistance to what happens. Events may create
physical pain, but they do not in themselves create
suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress
happens when your mind resists what is… The only
problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to
life as it unfolds.”

43. “If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you
get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when
you get exactly what you want, you still suffer
because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind
is your predicament. It wants to be free of change.
Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and
death. But change is a law, and no amount of
pretending will alter that reality.”

44. “To get what we’ve never had, we must do what
we’ve never done.”

45. “This moment is the only thing that matters.”

46. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

47. “Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a
terminal illness – if you had little time left to live –
you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m
telling you… you do have a terminal illness: it’s
called birth. You don’t have more than a few years
left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason
– or you will never be at all.”

48. “Those who are hardest to love are usually the
ones who need it the most.”

49. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the
present .You can do nothing to change the past,
and the future will never come exactly as you plan
or hope for.”

50. “The difference between the 299th and the 300th
rep is the difference between the Heavyweight
Champion of the World and every other boxer”
- jeff hoffman

51. “That music that you hear inside of you urging you
to take risks and follow your dreams is your
intuitive connection to the purpose in your heart
since birth. Be enthusiastic about all that you do.
Have that passion with the awareness that the
word enthusiasm literally means ‘the God (ethos)
within (iasm).’ Don’t die with your music still in
you.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer.

52. "Whatever an education is, it should make you a
unique individual, not a conformist: it should
furnish you with an original spirit with which to
tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to
find values which will be your road map through
life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person
who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you
are, whomever you are with; it should teach you
what is important, how to live and how to die."
- John Taylor Gatto

53. "Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined,
self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have
firsthand encounters with the world. The world the
way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will
collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this
way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless
kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and
perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.
This will change you. Nothing will ever again be blackand-white."
― Mark Jenkins

54. "Education either functions as an instrument
which is used to facilitate the integration of the
younger generation into the logic of the present
system and bring about conformity to it, or it
becomes the practice of freedom - the means by
which men and women deal critically and
creatively with reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation of the world."
- Paulo Freire

55. Walter Bonatti said: "The mountains are the means,
the human being is the end. The idea is to improve
the human being, not to reach the top of the
mountain. "

56. "Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an
object."
-Herman Hesse

57. “Education doesn’t need to be reformed – it needs
to be transformed. The key is not to standardize
education but to personalize it, to build
achievement on discovering the individual talents
of each child, to put students in an environment
where they want to learn and where they can
naturally discover their true passions.” – Sir Ken
Robinson

58. “"If you want to summarize the habits of
successful people into one phrase, it’s this:
successful people start before they feel ready.“