Quotes About Self-improvement

My motivation is to be the best I can be.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

Any questions? Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?

If you're afraid to lose, then get stronger. If you want to protect those you love…then do what you have to do to protect them. If the hollow inside you is so terrible…then get strong enough to crush it. Even if no one believes in you…stick out your chest and scream in defiance!! The Ichigo I know…is that kind of man!!

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.

The judgment of history was ultimately less important than what he'd judge of himself, looking in the mirror every morning at not enough. The real prison was, and would always be, himself.

The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.

the chance to leave your old self behind. To take all your mistakes and regrets and erase them from the story. Who wouldn't want that?

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

Wasn't it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?

Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn't read.

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

You don't have any weaknesses?' 'I haven't found any.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror.

Impressed deep in the psyche of America, the most literate society ever founded, was the idea that you could improve yourself—morally, philosophically, financially—through the written word.

Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.

Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don't focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.

Speaking the truth in love requires two parts--truth and love. Cut either one out of the equation, and you'll cut yourself short. You may be one of the most difficult people for you to love because you know your weaknesses so well. Likewise, you may be one of the most difficult people to tell the truth to because it's so much easier to avoid facing the lies you tell yourself. But put those two elements together in your life--truth and love--and see how much easier they are to take!

Unfortunately, we live in an instant Jell-O society, with everybody wanting microwaved success. So as you look at truth therapy to combat the lies you tell yourself, don't go overboard with your expectations. Remember to lighten up and put your party hat on every now and then. Celebrate the little steps . . . as well as the significant milestones.

Let's face it. It's taken years for you to learn to be the person you are, so you're not going to change overnight. But the good news in that you can unlearn those aspects that you want to change and chart a new path in life. And it's never too late to start, whether you're 20, 40, 60, or 80!

I reminded myself to be smarter. I was smart. I just had a thick layer of stupid that had settled on top of me. But I was still wild when I needed to be. I'd get smarter.