Quotes About Self-improvement

I don't think you'll get much argument that my personality could use amending.

I had the skills, and making myself hate them would have been a real waste of time and energy.

If you tell your subconscious that you can be great for a few days, but then always blow it, you've given it both instruction and permission to give up after a few days.

Self-improvement is a gift, not a curse. It's a blessing, not a burden. It represents giving yourself something, not taking something away.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine

Ten paciencia contigo mismo y con los demás. No les critiques y de ese modo no regresará hasta ti ese karma, que se manifestará en otros criticándote a ti, algo que te puede apesadumbrar.

Bien sea que estudies a Dale Carnegie o a Napoleon Hill o a otros oradores más modernos, como Stephen Covey, en ellos encontrarás fórmulas para triunfar.

longed to change herself — not to earn the approval of her betters, but to satisfy her longings for a sight of what lay beyond the present confines of her life. She was not silly enough to dream of becoming a lady. A girl did not become a lady, she was born to be one. But Mary did hope most fervently to own two dresses, a bed, a place she could go to and be alone, and to be able to read a whole book without difficulty.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

He knew what it was like to have lost belief in one's own excellence. One could not move through life without a measure of outward assurance any more than one could go about without a suit of clothes, but it needed a lot of practice before one could hold the thing steady outwardly while remaining inwardly aware that there was nothing to be assured about.

t's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -

I studied because I wanted to know, not because I wanted the world to know I knew.

By clearly emphasizing all that was lacking in others, by mapping and raising to an art form the catalog of their flaws, Veblen's mother had inversely punched out a template for an ideal human being, and it was the unspoken assumption that Veblen would aspire to this template with all her might.

I only have one tip on how to help someone else live a better life. Get a life of your own and show them how it's done!

Most people have opinions about how others should behave ... I just have high standards for who I intend to be no matter how they're behaving!

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.

working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me.

At times these days—rarely, very rarely, but at times—I feel like I've become, oh, just a tiny—tiny—bit better as a person, and it makes me sick that Henry didn't get any of that from me.

You can become bigger or bitter, this is what I think. And as a result of that pain, I became bigger.