Quotes About Self-improvement

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.

Transformational tools enhance one's clarity, competence, compassion, and empower you to achieve anything that seems impossible to you and others.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Do your beliefs create your goals or are your beliefs a result of achieving your goals?

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

A good student learns from his teacher. A great student learns to teach himself.

her dream of becoming a nurse was no ordinary yearning : it was the product of a desire as richly and completely imagined as a novel or a poem. It recalled for him what it meant to be driven to better yourself, to lay claim to a wider world.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

Without the most humble and sedulous grappling with the inner defects there can never be any real mastery—and the most beautiful efforts will come to nought.

Yesterday you said there were flaws in my goodness. Won't you tell me what they are so that I may accentuate them? In that knowledge lies my salvation. Save me from goodness, Henry.

is a difference between being open to constructive criticism and letting jealous strangers say cruel things to you that make you feel bad about yourself. As

Do not pose in your own presence. Id est: do not affect the qualities and virtues you would like to have but have not.