Quotes About Self-improvement

You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

The way to becoming who you want to be is the way of destroying who you are.

We've got something about ourselves we wish we could change, and we never knew that none is perfect.

I wanted to curl up in her lap and stay there forever. I wanted to be her. She was raising me, cultivating me, molding me into a far better version of me than I could have ever dreamed up, let alone lived out, on my own. (149)

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.

Karl Marx himself spoke to her and said, "Sheilah, arise, you have nothing to lose but your mediocrity.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Still, I accepted this invitation to speak tonight because if one of my fundamental rules for living a successful and happy life is: don't be the smartest person in the room, it's corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room. This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich. Gesetzt den Fall, ich tadle mich; So hab' ich erstens den Gewinn, Daß ich so hübsch bescheiden bin; Zum zweiten denken sich die Leut, Der Mann ist lauter Redlichkeit; Auch schnapp' ich drittens diesen Bissen Vorweg den andern Kritiküssen; Und viertens hoff' ich außerdem Auf Widerspruch, der mir genehm. So kommt es denn zuletzt heraus, Daß ich ein ganz famoses Haus.

I made myself smile and I'm actually feeling better!

you should know that correcting your intuitions may complicate your life.

Niente televisione, ma pianoforte dalle cinque alle sei, chitarra dalle sei alle sette, danza il mercoledì, judo, tennis, scherma il sabato, sci di fondo ai primi fiocchi di neve, corso di vela ai primi raggi di sole, ceramica i giorni di pioggia, viaggio in Inghilterra, ginnastica ritmica... Nessunissima possibilità lasciata al più piccolo quarto d'ora di faccia a faccia con se stesso.

The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

If you don't like who you are, don't just change your behavior—change your thoughts.

Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.