Socrates Quotes

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

Self improvement is masturbation.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

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 think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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

Don't go through life, grow through life.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.