David Packard Quotes

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Improvement begins with I.

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

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Before you can do something you must first be something.