Quotes About Self-improvement

All our troubles, if we carefully seek out their source, derive in some way from not knowing how to make a proper use of time," says Dante in his Convivio.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

at least a glimmer of hope that man can, if he will try, heal himself rather than destroy himself.

with luck, you can improve yourself in the happiest fashion, which is to learn something you thought you already knew.

If you are afraid to take risks and continue to push yourself forward, then there will be some obstacles you will never overcome.

We believe this spiraling lack of happiness today is simply due to a lack of accountability.

People of Western culture put great value on the level of a man's knowledge but they do not value the level of a man's being and are not ashamed of the low level of their own being. They do not even understand what it means.

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions"—anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like—things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

We see our troubles through the filter of our own imperfection...

Whenever we find ourselves ensnared in negative behavior, he suggests, we should increase the amount of time, thought, and energy we direct toward positive behavior.

It is easier to act yourself way into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action.O. H. Mowrer

Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark "One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.

Humor is a silent and polite dynamite which enables you to blow your own way of life sky-high every time you have had enough of it, yet with the maximum discretion and without making a mess.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Advice to Young Journal Keepers . Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

Thomas had tried to educate himself, mainly by reading everything he could find. When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven -- what it is and what it holds for us. I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think. I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here -- and be OURSELVES just the same -- only it will be easier to be good and to -- follow the highest. All the hindrances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself