Individual Development Quotes

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.