Quotes About Self-improvement

I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can't explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.

We all have the ability to adjust our course towards a more better direction. Choosing to do so is less painful than being forced to. Moving toward a destination that is beneficial to ourselves and others could be worth the effort. Know Yer Loved, CWD

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." —Karl A. Menninger

the Upper Limit Problem cannot be solved in the usual way we solve problems: by gathering information or replacing one set of information with another. The Upper Limit Problem must be dis-solved, not solved. You dissolve it by shining a laserlike beam of awareness on its underpinnings—the false foundations that hold the Upper Limit Problem in place. When you shine the light of awareness on the underpinnings, they disappear.

This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If

I can't expand to my highest potential because I'd be an even bigger burden than I am now.

Fake it till you make it actually worked.

Es sólo un día, un periodo de veinticuatro horas para superarte a ti mismo -Adam

Well," she said, getting more comfortable, "Here's what I've got so far. I'm going to college and getting a Ph.D. in being awesome. That's a thing, right? Everyone will call me Dr. Kitten and pay me megabucks to diagnose all their problems. Because, of course, I will have all the answers.

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities. Gene Roddenberry

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

If we think our job here on earth is to fix ourselves, we will keep looking for the broken places. If we believe our job is to be kind, we will keep lavishing love on ourselves.

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

If you don't like the mind you've got, change the thoughts in it for better ones and your mind will change all by itself.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

George, I know you're tired. But President Lincoln, he didn't free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves."-George's Grandmother.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.