Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you're exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.

People think because there's only 24 hours in a day, we're just supposed to play our sport and then go home and think some more about our sport. They don't think that we should care about other things, but the reality is that you can be really good at what you do for a living and have other hobbies.

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Focus on your strengths.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.