Quotes About Self-improvement

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

You stand in your own light.

What it means is that you have the power to change your brain. All you have to do is lace up your running shoes.

Reading's the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.

What are you going to do for a career? Diverted from his orbit, Donald binked. Well, something which uses up a minimum of my time, I imagine. So I can use the rest to mortar up the gaps in my education.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for anything else. Men's happiness or misery is most part of their own making. He, whose mind directs not wisely, will never take the right way; and he, whose body is crazy and feeble, will never be able to advance in it.

You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.

There is no such thing as talent, there is only cleaning the mirror.

Our character is a lifelong project, and perhaps the older we are, and the more fixed our shortcomings are, the more we can use inspiration to encourage our escape from the restraints of our deficiencies. The

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

No one will ever write in just the way that you do, or in just the way that anyone else does. Because of this fact, there is no real competition between writers. What appears to be competition is actually nothing more than jealousy and gossip. Writing is a matter strictly of developing oneself. You compete only with yourself. You develop yourself by writing.

an education makes you good company for yourself!)

I never look back, except to find out about mistakes… I only see danger in thinking back about things you are proud of.

Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it -- or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.

I will write my story for my better self.