Quotes About Self-improvement

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Every time we do something # GOOD . We # RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the # REVERSE is just as # TRUE .