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Quotes About Self-improvement

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!
~ Richard Bach
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.
~ Jack Kornfield
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
~ James Ellroy
I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
~ Byron Katie
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.
~ Lee L Jampolsky
Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.
~ Taylor Lautner
I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.
~ Ryan Sheckler
The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.
~ Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi
How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I love to challenge myself.
~ Teresa Palmer
The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.
~ Sara Davidson
WOKE THE NEXT MORNING, WHICH WAS A GOOD START. WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.
~ Maureen Johnson
Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.
~ Maurice Druon
I had to train myself to accept that not everybody works as hard as me. That what I consider unacceptably sloppy is actually an okay result, and it's counterproductive to get into a whole thing where someone starts crying and threatening to quit. And you know what? Learning that not only helped me grow as a manager. It helped me grow as a person.
~ Max Barry
You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you
~ Maxwell Maltz
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.
~ May Sarton
Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.' It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.
~ Maya Angelou