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Quotes About Self-improvement

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
~ Confucius
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.
~ Joe Rogan
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
~ Abraham Maslow
May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
~ Umar
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
~ Eddie Murphy
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
~ I. F. Stone
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
~ James Pike
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
~ Zane Grey
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
~ Bruce Lee
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
~ Ed Sheeran
No man is hurt but by himself.
~ Diogenes
My future's about trying to be a better man
~ Terrence Howard
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
~ Mencius
Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.
~ Big Sean
A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
~ Walther Rathenau
I try to be the best man I can for the day.
~ Jim Caviezel
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
~ Plato
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.
~ Tom Hanks
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
~ Francois Fenelon
Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.
~ Rapsody
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
~ Edward Steichen
The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
~ Charles Spurgeon