Bill Clinton Quotes

The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.