Anne Frank Quotes

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

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

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.