Quotes About Self-improvement

I am the type of person that I complain about.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

The work involved in exploring your own nature, identifying weaknesses in your character, and then working to overcome them can be difficult and even painful. But as with all transformative change, the outcomes can more than compensate for the work of achieving them. You may be the only person in your life who is unaware of the shortcomings in your character.

Of course you are discontented," God thundered. "I made you discontented, because if you weren't discontented, why would you bother to try to become better?" "Better than what?" I asked, trembling in spite of myself. "Better than Me," cried God.

Most people are satisfied too soon, and that is the reason why there is so little wisdom in the world.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness

The doer alone learneth.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Dwelling on past mistakes is a way of reinforcing your ego. The ego can be strengthened just as well by dwelling on what's bad about you as it can by dwelling on what's good. In fact, for some of us — myself included — dwelling on what's bad about ourselves reinforces the ego much more effectively than dwelling on what's good.

Focus on your bag. Not your girl.

Look in the mirror. Look at your bank account. Thats all the motivation you need.

Stop sleeping on yourself.

Getting your head out of your ass once its been firmly planted can be a difficult task. Don't give up though.

Every difficulty, issue, or worry, contains within itself the seed of its own undoing.

I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were, Shallan," Adolin said. "We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become." "As long as it's what you want to become. Not what someone else thinks you should become.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

Never go on a date unarmed." Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.