Quotes About Self-improvement

Ask yourself, how much of your time do you spend developing someone else's product? How much developing yourself?

You need to spend evenings, weekends, and holidays educating yourself, therefore you cannot spend your evenings, weekends, and holidays working overtime on your current project.

When you make a plan to merge your real-life goals with your money, you may discover you have to overcome yourself more than anyone or anything else.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

What did or didn't happen last year is less a product of a lack of discipline and willpower, and more a product of the resources - internal and external - that you are still developing.

It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.

try to live in this place between the two, to try to build a life there. Because finding fault and feeling hopeless about improving our situation produces resignation, of which cynicism is a symptom, a sort of futile self-protection mechanism. But on the other hand, believing blindly that everything will work

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

I want to change. I know I could if you give me another chance." I couldn't even laugh. He had gone for pitiful and passed right through it to pathetic. "If you want to change, you'll do it on your own.

Running has taken me in and continues to comfort, heal, and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a good runner because I am me; I am a good me because I am a runner.

Make it complete first and see what it is then. But to make it complete is already a mountain of a task, and by the time you arrive at absolute completion, you find that you are already dead, so you never reach that preliminary condition for perfecting yourself.

A neurosis…is not a disgrace…It is not a fatal disease, but it does grow worse to the degree that one is determined to ignore it.

A] sense of moral inferiority" writes Jung "always indicates that the missing element is something which, to judge by this feeling about it, really ought not to be missing, or which could be made conscious if only one took sufficient trouble. . .Whenever a sense of moral inferiority appears, it indicates not only a need to assimilate an unconscious component, but also the possibility of such assimilation.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Ayusin mo muna ang buhay mo. Pinagpala kang maganda. Isabay mo d'on ang pagiging masipag.

I'd study the people around me for clues. Clues to figure out whom to emulate, how to dress, how to speak, how to act, how to dance. I'd grown up feeling unworthy and underloved. I wanted nothing more than to feel secure in myself—to feel that I was really good at something.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

What's more, it's not as though the fixed mindset wants to leave gracefully. If the fixed mindset has been controlling your internal monologue, it can say some pretty strong thing to you...The fixed mindset once offered you a refuge from that very feeling, and it offers it to you again. Don't take it.