Quotes About Self-improvement

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Even if you are what your parents made you, if you stay that way, it's your own darn fault. We're not going to undo the past. Let's focus on making the necessary changes to improve your functioning.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Get the books, and read and study them till, you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New-Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places. ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always wanted to be!

Self-help is the best help.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.

We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already are than Augustine or Dante, thereby ignoring that our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption.

A man can acquire anything in solitude except a character

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó ?? h?c không ??.

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó Ä'ã h?c không ??.

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced.

Tânjim dup? opere de art? care s? ne compenseze sl?biciunile È™i s? ne ajute s? g?sim calea cea mai viabil?. Consider?m frumoase operele de art? care ne compenseaz? virtuÈ›ile deficitare, respingându-le ca urâte pe cele care ne induc anumite st?ri sau motive de a ne simÈ›i fie ameninÈ›aÈ›i, fie copleÈ™iÈ›i din start. Arta deÈ›ine promisiunea integrit??ii noastre interioare.