Quotes About Self-improvement

In spite of the fact that Russian is very tough, I think that I can find enough strength in myself to learn it.

After three months of singing, Hef heard me practicing once. He tried to convince me to quit singing lessons because there was no chance of being good at it. Of course, I cried a lot when he said that, but it was my money that I was investing in lessons so I continued partly out of spite and partly because I really wanted to do it.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I remember when I turned 30 and I started doing sit-ups, I split with my girlfriend and stopped drinking and all sorts of things. It was a very weird time. But 60... I like it.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.