Quotes About Self-improvement

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

A man is no better than he has to be.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.