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Quotes About Self-improvement

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
~ Jon Stewart
The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.
~ Jonathan Antin
Here's the same idea from Buddha: It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
~ Jonathan Haidt
On the other hand, those with a growth mindset believe that intelligence is something that can be grown. Effort, work, and challenges are what make intelligence grow and flower and bear juicy fruit. People with a growth mindset aren't as attached to demonstrating their intelligence because they know intelligence can be increased, and so intelligence isn't a fundamental, unvarying aspect of their sense of self. Notice I said, "aren't as attached.
~ Jonathan Harnum
You set extremely high standards for yourself, and when you succeed, you ignore the success and immediately raise your standards. But when you fail, you won't let go of it. You keep punishing yourself, telling yourself you're worthless.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
I wanted to remake myself too. I wanted to whitewash my soul. I couldn't do it before the world ended. Not really. But every day since, I've been trying to be a new person. Not the thing my father made me...no, I wanted to be the man I should have been if the old world had shown me even a splinter of grace.
~ Jonathan Maberry
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
~ Jonathan Swift
There is little you can do about the annoying speech mannerisms of others, but there is a lot you can do about your own.
~ Emily Post
It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you
~ Eminem
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
~ Emmet Fox
You are always in your right place at the moment. If you don't like it, change it scientifically by rising in consciousness. This will be permanent.
~ Emmet Fox
Soy lo que soy porque me lo he ganado gracias a errores y esfuerzos previos; es lo que merezco
~ Enrique Barrios
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Si hay lucha y esfuerzo, se puede ir hacia lo mejor; si hay dejadez, desidia, abandono y poco espíritu de combate, todo se va deslizando hacia una versión pobre, carente de aspiraciones, de forma que surge lo peor de uno mismo.
~ Enrique Rojas
La educación de la voluntad debe estar edificada sobre la alegría, que nos conducirá poco a poco a ser mejores, pero que no hay que confundir con hacer grandes gestas, cosas increíbles, ni renuncias extraordinarias. Para fortalecer la voluntad lo mejor es seguir una política de pequeños vencimientos:
~ Enrique Rojas
En conclusión, podemos decir que la madurez personal es una aspiración, una meta, un objetivo a medio-largo plazo, pero al que rara vez se llega de forma total. Hemos de ser realistas. Las utopías son malas compañeras de viaje. La madurez supone un cierto estado de plenitud que se va alcanzando mediante un proceso de crecimiento gradual y paulatino.
~ Enrique Rojas
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
~ Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~ Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~ Epictetus
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~ Epictetus
The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.
~ Epicurus
Kiitosta ei pidä kerjätä ja itse meidän tulee kantaa vastuu elämämme parantamisesta.
~ Epicurus
No hay nada noble en ser superior a alguna otra persona. La verdadera nobleza es ser superior a tu ser antiguo.
~ Eric Butterworth