Quotes About Self-improvement

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. —Zig Ziglar

Solve problems, don't create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can then solve to the acclaim of the multitudes, or blowing up the size of issues and then handing them off to others. Try to not do that.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

[Referring to people who are critical of others:] You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

Physician, heal thyself," runs the adage; but it was characteristic of Mary Baker as of so many mental healers, that the magician who cured thousands could never fully succeed in curing herself.

I am perhaps excessively independent and generally reclusive, and I hated having to ask people for help, but I could see that this was yet another opportunity to work on a weakness. Free Rider was stretching me in ways I had never anticipated.

People knit for their own reasons, but some of the most intense knitters I know are the ones who used it to help them quit smoking. It's a perfect plan, really; knitting keeps your hands busy, and it is relaxing and repetitive enough to hold off most of the urges to smoke. You get to spend your cigarette money on yarn, a powerful motivator, and two weeks after you quit you have four sweaters, three hats, and several really big afghans. Knitting can be a useful tool for self-improvement.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. — RAY BRADBURY

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you "It". Have you tried it?

Personality rise as comparison dies.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Personal purifying is the beginning of everything," MacKaye said. "Once you get your own shit together, once you get your own mind together, it makes life for you and the people around you so much more agreeable and understandable as opposed to constant fucking problems.

It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved