Quotes About Self-improvement

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.