Quotes About Self-improvement

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.