Quotes About Self-improvement

Personal growth isn't about beating yourself up, it's about celebrating your ability to refine and enhance yourself, and increase your personal development through awareness.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Once you've been at another's mercy you swear to yourself it will never happen again. You'll get stronger, smarter, and history will never repeat itself because you've grown and changed and you're not the same person anymore.

Let's learn the lesson from this relationship so we can move on to a healthier, happier solution the next time around.

For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward.

Force yourself to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. A being causes his own feelings. Splurge on it!

Do not blame for the stone that made you fall today, cause tomorrow it will serve as a lesson for you kick it

Never let your future depends of nothing but you. Never let your plans controlled by luck or possibilities. If you hope for a good tomorrow, be you the tomorrow.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

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

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct.

If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, 'First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.' Good old Epictetus. I would be Confident Girl, and that means unplastering myself from the side of this building, for starters.

I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, "Jack, you've done it again!"

How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday. Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple.

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?