Quotes About Self-improvement

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.

John Adams told him. "And if you do not rise . . . to the head of your country, it will be owing to your own Laziness, Slovenliness, and Obstinancy." 65

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

Think like the person you intend to become.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Don't wait to be reminded to focus on your own development.

As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do." Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: "There isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.