Quotes About Self-improvement

I'm quitting. Quitting? Yes, you can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

he tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42

I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.

I guess what I meant is that you are better off doing nothing than doing something badly. But the problem is that bad writers tend to have the self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt. [1989 interview in the literary journal "Arete". In response to the question Your poem 'friendly advice to a lot of young men' says that one is better off living in a barrel than he is writing poetry. Would you give this same advice today?]

Por muy pequeño que sea un hombre, siempre descubrirá que puede serlo más.

Bedno sam se ose?ao što ne mogu da ga hvalim bez rezerve. Ali ako lažeš ?oveka o njegovom talentu samo zato što sedi prekoputa tebe, to je najneoprostivija od svih laži, jer ga podsti?e da produži sa tim, da nastavi, što je najgori na?in za ?oveka bez istinskog talenta da stra?i svoj život. Mnogi ljudi baš to i ?ine, uglavnom prijatelji i ro?aci.

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

You can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action - Larsen

We are what we do. If you want to change, you have to work at it. Change what you do. You have to repeat and reinforce. Over and over. Do the same thing again and again. Until it is you.

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

Who knows how you should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl

While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

Judging other people had become my way of avoiding judgment of myself, and I had to do better than that.

I define me. No event or person does this. I define me. I decide who I am and how I'm going to behave, and I choose to be better. To look more carefully, to trudge deeper. To think about other people's past and not judge someone for doing or handling something differently than I would. To understand my limitations, my shortcomings - that is my growth edge.

Choose the guy that's going to make you a better girl.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time." She wanted to believe that; she wanted to believe it almost desperately. She wanted to be different from what she was—to be anything but what she was. But every day that grew less and less likely. Life, it seemed to her in the back of the cab, was nothing but a narrowing of opportunities. It was a funnel.

You're a grown-up, right? Then don't be a dope. The gadgets, or the weights, do not do the work. You do. Okay, go to a decent gym and hire the nicest, smartest man or woman you can find.

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.