Quotes About Self-improvement

I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people

One must educate oneself

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —LEO TOLSTOY

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACY   

The ego needs all the help it can get. We can all benefit from getting over ourselves.

Many people, in both the East and the West, believe that shutting down the ego, and the thinking mind, is the ultimate purpose of meditation. The Dalai Lama, rather forcefully, always argues that this is a grave misunderstanding. Ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it according to certain guiding principles. Intelligence is a key ally in this shaping process, something to be harnessed in the service of one's progress.

Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

Ten menos miedo y más esperanza; come menos, mastica más; lloriquea menos, respira más; habla menos, di más; odia menos, ama más; y todo lo bueno será tuyo. Proverbio sueco

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.

Mercedes] learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives.

Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives. We must develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.

If we decide to think, feel, and act as the kind of person we want to be, we will become that person. We won't just be behaving "like" that person; we will be that person.

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. —AYN RAND

But here's the truth: the ultimate thing that stops most of us from making significant progress in our lives is not somebody else's limitations, but rather our own limiting perceptions or beliefs.