Quotes About Self-improvement

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

People mistake their limitations for high standards.