Quotes About Self-improvement

It is unwise to make your personal happiness dependent upon your first having created a more civilized human culture. Because your hoped-for culture is most probably dependent for its creation upon your first having personally achieved greater happiness yourself.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Once you have accepted your flaws, No one can use them against you.

I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers." "Who was I supposed to play with?" "Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?" "Well enough to play." "But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.

Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it "Answered Prayer' and make an end.

Nigdy nie zapominaj o tym, kim jeste?, bo ?wiat na pewno o tym nie zapomni. Uczy? z tego swoj? si??, a wtedy przestanie to by? twoj? s?abym punktem. Zrób z tego swoj? zbroj?, a nikt nie u?yje tego przeciwko tobie.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgement.

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still.