Quotes About Self-improvement

I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.

I love pushing myself and I think being in a comfort zone perennially can restrict your growth.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Character is perfectly educated will.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.