Quotes About Self-improvement

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

As students, it's important that irrespective of whatever you are doing, you educate yourself, as that gives you certain standing in public.

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

I don't want to become a jaded person, and I don't want to be complacent.

I'm not the biggest fan of New Year's resolutions, but I'm a huge backer for real life change - that's why January gets me so geeked up.

I thought I could go and make a bigger name for myself on the independents and possibly in Japan, places like that.

Everybody has their opinions of what Jeff Green should be or what I can do, but I have to go out there and prove it to myself that I work hard and I put in the work to be in the position I'm in.

I've exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.

If you show up every day to a job you hate, and you are doing nothing to change that - you've got no one to blame but yourself.

Receive what this great cornucopia has offered, Behold a useful and profitable book. If you think otherwise, Do not lay the blame on the book, but on yourself.

There may be no great honor in running away, but worse than that is continuing like an idiot.

For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem. 

He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

Frank Bettger

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Try to improve yourself rather than seeing mistakes of other's