There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

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 “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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 Ernest Hemingway
 
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 “If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!”
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 Sarah Dessen,
 
 
 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/100634" dir="ltr">Keeping the Moon</a>
 
 




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 “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
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 Anais Nin,
 
 
 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1107826" dir="ltr">The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934</a>
 
 




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 “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
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 Stephen Fry
 
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 “We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.”
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 Idowu Koyenikan,
 
 
 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/48666706" dir="ltr">Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability</a>
 
 




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