Quotes About Self-improvement

I decided to revive a long-lost interest and try my hand at cartooning. But it was an unlikely dream, given my complete lack of artistic talent and the rarity of success stories in that business. So I decided to try something called affirmations, which I will describe in more detail later in the book. I bought some art supplies, practiced drawing every morning before work, and wrote my affirmation fifteen times a day: "I, Scott Adams, will be a famous cartoonist.

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Is cowardice a habit? And if it is, am I brave enough to break it?

S'ils avaient un peu plus d'amour-propre, ils ne se laisseraient pas aller à se contenter (même avec passion) d'un objectif aussi superficiel et d'un avenir aussi étroit.

I am not sure, I answered. I hope it won't break my heart if I don't do well. I had been concentrating on developing that kind of attitude since I'd emerged from my depression in November. I'd realized how much I had taken the achievement ethic to heart - I had been so hard on my mistakes and middling performances. A sincere effort was all I owed myself.

Since I have been obliged to associate continually with other people, and observe what they do, and how they employ themselves, I have become far better satisfied with myself.

Thus, book after book, the book of all books would that it was given to us so that we might try to enter there as into a second world, where we lose ourselves, enlighten ourselves, perfect ourselves.

Lei chiama il cattivo umore un vizio; mi sembra esagerato». «A me non sembra», ribattei, «perché merita di essere chiamato vizio tutto ciò che danneggi noi stessi e gli altri. Come non bastasse il fatto che non siamo capaci di renderci felici l'uno con l'altro così dovremmo anche toglierci l'un con l'altro il piacere che a volte il nostro cuore riesce a procurarsi? »

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

This version of "Meister," with whatever faults it may have,

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.

Gdy zm?drze? chcesz, przez b??dze? brnij udr?k?, Gdy chcesz si? sta?, na w?asn? sta? si? r?k?!

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain." —Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroanatomist and Nobel Laureate

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can't be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.