Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

You are the only person you can actually change

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

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

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

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

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.