Maria Montessori Quotes

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.