Quotes About Self-improvement

practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power.

Hasta ahora, ha determinado toda su vida por las elecciones y decisiones que ha hecho o dejado de hacer. Si hay algo en su vida que no le guste, usted es el responsable. Si hay algo de lo que no está contento, a usted le toca dar los pasos necesarios para cambiarlo y mejorarlo de forma que sea más de su gusto.

To perform at your best, you must become your own personal cheerleader. You must develop a routine of coaching yourself and encouraging yourself to play at the top of your game.

When you complain you actually weaken yourself. You generate feelings in yourself of inferiority and inadequacy. You feel angry and resentful. You feel negative and unsure. Your level of self-confidence and self-respect actually declines as you complain about anything to someone else. You hurt yourself by complaining much more than you hurt the target of the complaints, who you may not affect at all.

La regla básica en relación con el desarrollo personal es que no puedes ir más allá de lo que has ido hoy con tu conocimiento y habilidad actuales.

Every situation is a positive situation if viewed as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Aparta treinta minutos o más cada día para revisar tus metas, planes y progreso. El mejor momento para realizar esta revisión es a primera hora de la mañana.

to develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for." In modern terms, however, we say, "Fake it until you make it.

Develop a Positive Addiction Here is one of the most important of the so-called secrets of success. You can actually develop a "positive addiction

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

What is it in methat is holding me back?

I did not ask her to go from disliking her sister to loving her sister. I asked her to try to go from disliking her sister to feeling neutral about her sister. To do this for her own sake, so she didn't have to feel the unpleasant feeling of disliking someone. She did. Her thought changed from: "My sister is unreasonable." To: "My sister doing what my sister does." She felt relief. Isn't

No one is fixed until they make the effort to change.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

IMPROVE ONE'S SELF, IMPROVE ONE'S FACE.

I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And that's what I'll believe until I run out of tomorrows.

We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.

What she detested most was the absolute unselfconsciousness of her ego. It made no apologies, gave no quarter, and plunged on. It was unwholesome. She knew it would be impossible to tear it out, root and branch. She would have to work on it patiently, reason with it, distract it, maybe even threaten it.

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

But regrets don't help. We have to forget about what we couldn't do and concentrate on what we can.

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.