Quotes About Self-improvement

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. As will be evident, these are not complex tools whose application demands extensive training. To the contrary, they are simple tools, and almost all children are adept in their use by the age of

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.

If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.

The feeling of being valuable—"I am a valuable person"—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

we are incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves, just as we are incapable of teaching our children self-discipline unless we ourselves are self-disciplined.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

If we feel ourselves valuable, then we will feel our time to be valuable, and if we feel our time to be valuable, then we will want to use it well.

This transformation occurred by virtue of the fact that Orestes was willing to accept responsibility for his mental illness.

If we can make ourselves into totally disciplined, wholly loving individuals, then, even though we may be ignorant of theology and give no thought to God, we will have prepared ourselves well for the coming of grace.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Meg, I give you your faults. My faults! Meg cried. Your faults. But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults! Yes, Mrs. Whatsit said. However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.

A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems—his own emotional needs—by solving other people's problems.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

He who conquers self conquers all.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.