Self-improvement

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth Change Progress

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Three Methods of Reform

Medium

Essay

Language

Russian

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Self-improvement Personal growth Character

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

The Death of a Genius Life Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Death of a Genius." Interviewed by William Miller. Life Magazine, 2 May 1955.

Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Self-improvement Personal growth

Speaker

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be orderly in everything, even in the smallest details.

Eugène Delacroix

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Topic

Artistic development Orderliness Self-improvement Organization Happiness

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Source

Journals of Eugene Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 15 Apr. 1823.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

The only way to be new is constantly to change yourself, and the only way to be original is to increase, enlarge, deepen your own personality.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Creativity Originality Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Journals of W. Somerset Maugham

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Greenwood Press, 1970.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Frances Burney

Camilla

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Topic

Self-criticism Self-improvement

Speaker

Mrs. Arlbery

Author

Frances Burney

Source

Camilla

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burney, Frances. Camilla. London: T. Payne and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796.

Current Citation

Burney, Frances. Camilla. Oxford University Press, 2009.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Raising kids Parents and children Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Development of Personality

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. The Integration of Personality, translated by Stanley Dell. Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

To pursue it is to be human, to give it up is to be a beast.

Xunxi

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Topic

Education Self-improvement

Author

Xunxi

Source

An Exhortation to Learning

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

250 BC 250s BC 3rd century BC

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Original Citation

Xunzi. Xunzi. c. 238 BC.

Current Citation

Xunzi. Xunzi: The Complete Text, translated by Eric L. Hutton. Princeton University Press, 2014, ch. 1.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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Topic

Self-improvement Personal development

Speaker

Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.