Quotes About Self-improvement

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

N'essayez pas de devenir un homme qui a du succès. Essayez de devenir un homme qui a de la valeur.

If you only do what you can do, you can never be more than what you are now.

Persist at using the scientific method of questioning and challenging your irrational Beliefs until you begin to give them up, increase your effectiveness, and enjoy yourself more.

We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was good-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!

But we can choose to change ourselves remarkably.

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.