Quotes About Self-improvement

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Work to learn. Don't work for money.

Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

Make yourself worthy of money and money will make itself worthy of you.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.