Quotes About Self-improvement

Teacher respect, motivation, self-improvement, deep subject knowledge, preparation, and transferring information are qualities all teachers should possess at any level and in any environment.

His father, Joshua Wooden, had repeatedly stressed he should never try to be better than someone else, but that he should never cease to try and become the best that he could be.

Coach Wooden preached against comparisons and external rewards, and for focusing on becoming your best.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

We are to work to improve ourselves while at the same time remaining totally dependent on God.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Even if she could not attend school, she was determined not to be outdone in reading books.

Such attachment to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as "learned helplessness.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

I've spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose—

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Bringing an automatic habit into awareness in order to change it is a crucial step.

our emotional problems are seen as temporary and superficial. The emphasis is on what is right with us,

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love.

You will remember that it was St. Augustine who said that if a man wished to improve the world about him he must make himself a better individual—which is the most gigantic task any man ever faced, and the majority fail in it.