Quotes About Self-improvement

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius

If you're interested in being your best, your inner monologue needs to support the best you want to be. In fact, when it comes to sustained performance, because doubt and disappointment are constant companions, controlling your thoughts is often the ball game.

Not only is the distracted present a miserable place to be, it's also the worst kind of self-handicapping. Study after study shows that we're terrible multitaskers. By trying to improve performance by being everywhere and everywhen, we end up nowhere and never. The sad truth is that our lives are pulling us in every direction save the one where we're most effective.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round.

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.