Personal Development Quotes

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!

~ James A. Murphy

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We all must determine what types of anatomical castanets vest in our central core. For aught we know, we still tend to think of ourselves as a complete and fixed product. In reality, analogous to an unfinished paper, working from the inside out, we are retooling ourselves every day whether we recognize the minor or major tinkering taking place or not. In a neurological sense, the brain is constantly working to build and rebuild itself. In a psychological sense, every day the human mind is altering who we are. We constantly take in new information that modifies and enhances our understanding of the world and our place in the environment. Every day we are using the sense of self and our accumulated knowledge to adapt to our world and modify our thinking and behavior.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story, no one else does. Believe in the unique step up the mountain.

~ Brittany Burgunder

One of the best roads to self-improvement is acceptance of personal mistakes and correcting them as soon as possible.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Time provides all of us with the opportunity to change, alter our belief system, and create new perspectives that challenge a person’s character and teach him or her how to become a happier and wiser person.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people’s expectations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We live a life bounded by the perception of the self. Existence entails tabulating our personal contact with reality and plumbing the substance of the self. The loftiest task of all is to dream a worthy life and then go live it without fearing the unknown. It is wonderful to live; we must cherish our time by loving other people and adoring nature. We find ourselves through trial and error. We must not allow failure, pain, disappointment, heartache, or sour feelings to daunt us because each of these emotional indexes interprets our dream world intermixing with reality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The soul evolves as a person addresses the chaos, vagaries, and perplexities of enduring an earthly life. We each ultimately become our own version of an ideal self by stage-managing who we become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-realization is largely a matter of achieving a person’s formative personality definition. People whom lack self-realization oftentimes fail to integrate their desired personality traits into all phases of their life including social life, family life, and work life. In order to achieve satisfaction with oneself, a person must know what they wish for, know how to go about achieving their goals, be capable of recognizing where they now stand, and understand how they must change in order to attain their ultimate visage.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person is not born as a finished product; we create ourselves every day. Resembling reality, no person is a fixed and unchangeable entity. Each of us is in the process of becoming. A person’s perspective on their life experiences depends upon reviewing and integrating an emotional gamut of reconciling values with applied effort.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Read enough books to build your sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can’t improve what we don’t assess.

~ Michael Hyatt

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Let your life challenge your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

~ Steve Siebold

Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it’s blown, opportunities take to their heels!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.

~ Steve Siebold

If thousand people say you can't, and you alone believe you can, you will make it happen! But if million people say you can, and you alone believe you can't, you can't make it happen. It all depends on you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Two basic principles, reading God’s word and praying regularly.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Never invest in any kind of relationship with anyone who is not willing to work on themselves just a little every day. A person who takes no interest in any form of self-improvement, personal development or spiritual growth will also not be inclined to make much of an effort building a truly meaningful connection with you. A relationship with only one partner willing to do the work ceases to be a relationship. And as anyone who has been there will tell you - it's pointless to try and dance the tango solo.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Life is a never ending journey of reaching out of our comfort zone. We can always reach new levels.

~ Matthew Donnelly

The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

~ Matthew Donnelly

In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.

~ Jim Rohn

If we view ourselves to achieve a great life and DESIRE to fulfill our visions then we will do nothing but act accordingly regardless of the setbacks we occur on the journey. I am a unique individual who is on the journey for greatness and things will get in my way but I will figure out away around them or just go right through them with the conviction of my vision

~ Matthew Donnelly

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.

~ Bob Proctor