Quotes About Self-improvement

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength.

Your body may live in a cellar; but it's your own fault if your mind lives there.

Ésa es la razón de que, cuando di el primer paso para cambiar mi vida, estudiara con detenimiento en qué estaba gastando mi energía mental. Tuve que examinar los resultados de la energía que invertía en mis pensamientos con tanta atención como lo hacía con la que consumía para fortalecer mi cuerpo físico.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own

The Six Diseases: 1. The desire for victory. 2. The desire to resort to technical cunning. 3. The desire to display all that has been learned. 4. The desire to awe the enemy. 5. The desire to play the passive role. 6. The desire to get rid of whatever disease one is affected by.

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if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you're absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castigating. It hides under the mask of "self-improvement." It never works.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

Changing yourself changes everything.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

The greatest victory is not that which is won on the battlefield, but that which is won over oneself.

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Remember this, if you can—there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end—only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.

You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end—only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.

Consider how many times we have heard people reproach their organizations by saying, "There is no one there I want to be like." The reinventing process corrects this deficiency, heightening our desire for role models and people we can relate to. These people and groups provide a "safe base" that enables us to take risks with our new selves and a professional community in which we can develop a new sense of belonging.

Now this might get me into trouble but I'm just going to write it. Many of my most jaded female friends want a man who has already "arrived" and there's nothing wrong with that. However, I've noticed that if many of these women hold up a mirror to themselves, they would realize that they are still "works in progress," as well.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

When we feel like kicking ourselves around the block or curling up and disappearing, our condemnation comes from inner-judges like guilt and shame. What's a good deal harder to realize is that behind the scenes our inner-judges sicken us and dumb us down quite literally. If they sense we're a drag on the collective intelligence, inner-judges downshift our immune system and neurochemically cloud our ability to perceive.