Quotes About Self-improvement

Chekhov] made a vow to himself: no more bowing and apologizing to people; no more complaining and blaming; no more disorderly living and wasting time. The answer to everything was work and love, work and love.

Daily Law: Develop the habit of examining in depth your own emotional responses. You will end up slowly eliminating unnecessary reactions. The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

But Masters inevitably possess another quality that complicates the work process: They are not easily satisfied by what they are doing. While able to feel excitement, they also feel doubt about the worthiness of their work. They have high internal standards. As they progress, they begin to detect flaws and difficulties in their original idea that they had not foreseen.

If you want to make people with low self esteem feel better about themselves, praise has a superficial effect. Instead prod them into accomplishing something tangible, giving them a real experience. That will translate into a much deeper feeling of confidence.

be aware of the Emotional Pitfalls—complacency, boredom, grandiosity, and the like—that continually threaten to derail or block our progress.

Daily Law: Confront one of your limitations—one of the obstructions in your path—today. Break beyond it, climb over it, think your way around it. Don't run from it. It was created for you. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

Destroy the weeds of envy by giving them nothing to feed on.

Daily Law: When in doubt, focus on the things you know you do well. Expand outward from the center. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist—an artist creating yourself.

your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself. As a warrior in life, you welcome combat and conflict as ways to prove yourself, to better your skills, to gain courage, confidence, and experience. Instead of repressing your doubts and fears, you must face them down, do battle with them.

Remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist—an artist creating yourself.

Daily Law: Embrace negative experiences. When was the last time you failed, felt embarrassed, got criticized? What were you doing? What did the experience teach you? The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness

Create a Ladder of Descending Goals

Never associate with those who share your defects—they will reinforce everything that holds you back.

Daily Law: Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress.

Daily Law: What would you work on if no one was looking? If money were no object? TED Talk, "The Key to Transforming Yourself," October 23, 2013

Change Yourself from within, Little by Little

Remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist - an artist creating yourself.

We all have limitations—our energies and skills will take us only so far. Danger comes from trying to surpass our limits.

En este mundo no harás nada que valga la pena si no empiezas por desarrollarte y transformarte a ti mismo. ESTRATEGIAS

You will also become humbler, realizing you're not superior to others in the way you had imagined. This will not make you feel guilty or weighed down by your self-awareness, but quite the opposite. You will accept yourself as a complete individual, embracing both the good and the bad, dropping your falsified self-image as a saint. You will feel relieved of your hypocrisies and free to be more yourself. People will be drawn to this quality in you.

The following are six fundamental ideals you should aim for in transforming yourself into a strategic warrior in daily life.

analyze them in terms of the 48 laws of power, and you extract from them a lesson and an oath: "I shall never repeat such a mistake; I shall

Teacher Self-Assessment: A Mechanism for Facilitating Professional Growth.