Quotes About Self-improvement

Aim at something. Pick the best target you can currently conceptualize. Stumble toward it. Notice your errors and misconceptions along the way, face them, and correct them.

mejorar tu vida implica asumir mucha responsabilidad, lo que requiere más esfuerzo y cuidado que estar sumido estúpidamente en el dolor y mantenerse en la arrogancia, el engaño y el resentimiento.

You could be more than you are." When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future.

What is it that is bothering me?" "Is that something I could fix?" and "Would I actually be willing to fix it?

Resulta cada vez más necesario que nos corrijamos a nosotros mismos, no a otros, y que aprendamos explícitamente lo que ello significa.

You could watch the precious days tick by. Or you could learn how to entice yourself into sustainable, productive activity. Do you ask yourself what you want? Do you negotiate fairly with yourself? Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?

STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK

TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING

Jordan B. Peterson

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

The totalitarian says, in essence, "You must rely on faith in what you already know." But that is not what saves. What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know. That is faith in the possibility of human transformation. That is faith in the sacrifice of the current self for the self that could be.

You're associating with people who are bad for you not because it's better for anyone, but because it's easier.

Imajte malo poniznosti.

You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming—and the potential extent of that becoming also transcends your understanding.

Even if I was "traumatized," what would be the point of having survived it only to have to pay someone else to complain to about it, rather than turn it into something positive?

Or you could learn how to entice yourself into sustainable, productive activity. Do you ask yourself what you want? Do you negotiate fairly with yourself? Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?

Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson

completely—and with that improvement, some progress will be made in Being itself. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

You don't get to leap from being a 17 year old naughthead who doesn't know anything and who isn't disciplined to the critic of Judeo-Christian society. Especially when you can look at your own life and think about how many things you are doing you know are wrong and you could fix that you aren't fixing.

Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson

Consider, as well, that you may be blocked in your progress not because you lack opportunity, but because you have been too arrogant to make full use of what already lies in front of you.

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat