Quotes About Self-improvement

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Fear is the great barrier to human growth.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

The book you don't read won't help.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'.

When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.