Self-development

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

A man growing old becomes a child again

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom

Things do not change; we change

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast

The home is the chief school of human virtues

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader

Some people reach the age of sixty before others