Personal Development

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
- Jon Postel
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
- Les Brown
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates
Never offer what you'd hate someone for accepting.
- Tara Ploughman
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you dont win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- E. E. Cummings

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
- A. Bronson Alcott

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
- Jesse Lee Bennett

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco