Quotes About Self-improvement

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

If you're hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead? I don't know you, but I can guarantee you have some issues you can work on.

I want to be the girl who can do everything. I want to be the girl who tries out for the MVB Damsels and makes the team.

Could I have done more? Possibly. Yes. We can always do more. It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask. You might be feeling some of the same emotions and having some of these same thoughts.

You can be your best self wherever you are.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Not for the first time, as the trip kicks in, I make a note to myself: Don't be an asshole.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

As much as some people hate to admit it, and as angry as it makes many black people, the undeniable fact is that the greatest enemies to black progress today are within the black community itself, not in American society at large.

I would like to dedicate this award to a young man who has been on my mind for the last 19 years: Ross. Ross didn't love me. I was pigeon-toed, I had a sway back, I was slightly cross-eyed, buck-toothed, I sucked my thumb. Look at me now, Ross! Look at me now!