Personal growth quotes that are not motivational posters

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Good pain is a sign of effort; bad pain is a sign of damage.

In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination.

Let’s stop looking backwards here. It’s all about what happens tomorrow.

Behavior modification typically takes about 18 months of constant reinforcement.

You can have virtually anything you want, but you can't have everything you want.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.

Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

Your outcome in life will be way more satisfactory and way better if you work under people you really admire.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

Practice only saying things that make you strong.

We need to become adults, instead of aged children.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

Our dominance, our mastery does not stem from our hands but from our brains, from our fashioning the mind into the most powerful instrument known in nature—far more powerful than any claw.

What I've learned, anybody can do what I've learned.

If you have to force yourself to do it, you will lose.

The confidence you desire lies in the fears you avoid.

Life changes once you realize everything is an excuse.

A more worthwhile goal is to get paid for being yourself.

The answers you seek are found in the questions you avoid.

If you become the best at anything - you get paid handsomely.

What looks like confidence is often just consistent discipline.