Quotes About Self-improvement

You're never as bad as you think you are and certainly never as good. Keep your head about you. Strive every single day to be better than yesterday and even better tomorrow. Don't get caught in the trap of thinking you are something special.

We must acquire honesty, humility, appreciation, and kill self-centeredness to keep sober.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.

Actually, we have no problems, we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them…

For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the ideal situation for self, but as to how self may apply itself in its ideal to bring the ideal relationships with others.

Know that the fault ye find in others is a reflection of a fault in thyself. Be to others just as you would have others be to thee, and ye will remove much of that.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.

Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.

Setting a higher bar for yourself for what you mean by understanding can revolutionize how you perceive the world.

Be all that you can be.

Amend your ways and your doings.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.

Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

Everyone will experience failure for something. But the worse failure is not being able to conquer yourself.

Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of "I"; these things come and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure.