Quotes About Self-improvement

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be

U bezit zoveel verstand, zoveel kennis, zoveel talenten waar u plezier aan kunt beleven! Verman u toch! Geef het toch op, die treurige verknochtheid aan iemand die u er alleen maar om kan beklagen.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.