Quotes About Self-improvement

The people around me don't let my head get too big, especially my mom. She tells me I suck every day.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.

I know I'm a binge eater and it sucks... but I am still motivated and I know mentally I feel better when I physically eat better.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.

Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.

I have groomed myself over the years. When I started, I had skin problems, and had no idea what look suited me. I have put in a lot of efforts and worked hard on every aspect.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

Rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and clam before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand.

If what you're drinking is bitter, let yourself be the wine.

take pleasure in your growth, in which no one can accompany you, and be kind-hearted towards those you leave behind

Si la seva vida quotidiana li sembla pobra, no la blasmi; blasmi's vostè mateix, digui's que no és prou poeta per invocar-ne les riqueses.

Everything that makes you into more than you have ever been, in your best moments, is right.

What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.

All feelings are pure that focus you and raise you up. Any thoughts that match up to your childhood are good. Everything that makes more of you is right.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.