Quotes About Self-improvement

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

So if you identify as a ruminant, please write a new script for yourself. And repeat firmly after us: rumination is for cows!

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Clear your mind of can't.

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life.

Key concept," said the Fat Man, "to think that you're doing a shitty job. If you resign yourself to doing a shitty job, you go ahead and get the job done, and since we're all in the ninety-ninth percentile of interns, at one of the best ternships in the world, what you do turns out to be a terrific job, a superlative job. Don't forget that four out of every ten interns in America can't speak English.

You can make amends of your flaws and faults if you strive for perfection and succeed

We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, I'm ready to face today and obtain it ALL.

My 10-year challenge is to look back on the woman I was and to look forward on the woman I am becoming and continually be proud of every version of myself.

This year I challenge myself to break barriers, grow doubly and to pat myself on the back.

We all have incidents in our past we're not proud of, and the goal is to learn from them and become better people.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.