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Autobiography and memoir6 quotes
The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. — Booker T. Washington · 1900All experience is an arch, to build upon. — Henry Adams · 1907It is never too late to give up our prejudices. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Whatever you are, try to be a good one. — William Makepeace Thackeray · 1897When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Philosophical literature6 quotes
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Is Goodness indeed so far away? If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side. — Confucius · 221 BCNeither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. — Aristotle · 322 BCThe good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue... Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy. — Aristotle · 322 BCNever complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself. — Adam Smith · 1759Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking. — HeraclitusPsychological literature3 quotes
Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow · 1966Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. — Karen Horney · 1945If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — Carl Jung · 1939Comedy2 quotes
In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo! — Lucky Day · 1986Is this a breakthrough, that I'm a sailor? I sail? I sail now? — Bob Wiley · 1991Comedy (film)2 quotes
In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo! — Lucky Day · 1986Is this a breakthrough, that I'm a sailor? I sail? I sail now? — Bob Wiley · 1991Religious literature2 quotes
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day. — John Milton · 1671If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCSociology2 quotes
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. — Matthew Arnold · 1869In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse. — Christopher Lasch · 1979Adventure1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Adventure (film)1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Biography1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Biography (film)1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Comedy (play)1 quote
They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad. — William Shakespeare · 1616Coming of age story1 quote
No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that-one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Crime1 quote
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. — Doug MacRay · 2010Crime (film)1 quote
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. — Doug MacRay · 2010Epic poem1 quote
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day. — John Milton · 1671Historical literature1 quote
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. — Sima Qian · 109 BCModernist literature1 quote
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust · 1922Political literature1 quote
Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1963Scientific literature1 quote
Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow · 1966Thriller1 quote
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. — Doug MacRay · 2010Thriller (film)1 quote
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. — Doug MacRay · 2010Travel writing1 quote
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Western1 quote
In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo! — Lucky Day · 1986Western (film)1 quote
In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo! — Lucky Day · 1986