Quotes About Self-improvement

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Shakespeare might advise, "The fault is not in our markets, but in ourselves…

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

At any given time, we are all doing the best we can. The problem is, our best often isn't good enough for us. We then punish ourselves, denying ourselves peace because we feel we don't deserve it. A sad situation remedied when we finally accept, we are doing the best we can.

It has come to me of late that comparing one man's work to another's, naming one greater or lesser, is a wrong approach. The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities? What a marvellous world if all would, — could hold this attitude toward life.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.

Ambition to overcome own desires is the best perception; whereas, to do with others is the worst conception.

Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening-perception and practice.

Before judging others; judge, first yourself; otherwise, it may bring you down and define as self-humiliation.

Continuously learning, and learning is the core principle and pursuit of life since it works as an effective antidote therapy for the ego-feeling.

Ears - Listen to everyone, but seriously Eyes - Look at everyone, but observing Nose - Smell natural waves, but analyzing Tongue - Speak on time, but carefully Utilize these four abilities to drive and manage your life in a right and safe direction; you can overcome flaws and failures.

Education delivers nothing if you do not educate yourself.

My opponents are a gratis-mirror where I beautify not only my outlook, also inward and outward.