Quotes About Self-improvement

Second: I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.

Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth. Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!

Si entiende esta verdad, sabrá por qué es esencial que fomente las emociones positivas como las fuerzas dominantes de su mente, y desaliente —y elimine— las emociones negativas.

No man's education is ever finished. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot mentally develop.

Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

Az elsÅ' lépés önmagad megismerésében, ha különbséget tudsz tenni aközött, hogy miért teszel valamit, meg hogy mit mondasz, miért teszed. De ennél még odébb van, hogy valaki ne legyen kretén.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle

I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read, she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.

She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by

And you can use that bad experience as a crutch to hobble around on for the rest of your life, or you can get over it.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Things won't change unless you change you.

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

I'm in competition with myself. Always have been. It's up to me to be as good as I can be.

into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

I am self-educated from genre books.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

When I feel jealous, I try to understand where it is coming from and how to better myself where I feel I am lacking.