Quotes About Self-improvement

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Laura had been victimized, but she never took on the victim role. That was what was so heroic about her. Even though she'd been fighting for many years, she got up every day determined to better herself.

What does it mean to succeed? It is a question that haunts many. Many people, don't set any goals for themselves and succeed at very little.

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.

Sooner or later you have to recognize the old patterns. But even that wasn't enough, she now realized. It wasn't sufficient to simply watch them play out while thinking, Yes, indeed, that is my pattern, and then continue to do it that way all the same. No. Sooner or later you had to get up off your sorry butt and do a little better for yourself.

I'm trying to learn to be a nicer person.

You can heal your own self first, but most people never do. Maybe because you have to start by admitting you're broken.

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being. "To

You worry too much. You think you have to do too much. Like you think you're always just about to make some terrible mistake. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn to dump the tanks. There's nothing wrong with making coffee for me or walking the dog. It's nice. But I get a feeling you're doing it because you always feel like you need to do more. To be more. Like if you don't make yourself useful, you're not entitled to the air you breathe.

I decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

It did. Actually. Though I'm not sure that was the good news. "You don't sound too sure." "It's just that . . . what you just said . . . it's that kind of advice that lets you know what to do but not how to do it. I mean, how do you not take that stuff on?" "Right. I'll grant you that. It's easier said than done. But practice at it. You'll get better at anything you practice.

decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

When are you going to learn to act in your own best interests? In spite of what your emotions tell you to do?

The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.

Capita a tutti di combinare qualche pasticcio a volte, dopotutto non si può essere sempre nel giusto. ma quando cadi hai due possibilità: restare lì a terra ad autocommiserarti o alzarti e cercare di porre rimedio alle tue azioni. Cadere non è un crimine. Il crimine è restare a terra.

Self-learning has bloomed;

Your only defense is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort, to peck yourself to death.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

La vergogna può essere un sentimento utile. È il segnale di qualcosa che non va e può essere uno stimolo a cambiare in meglio.»

Happiness is a direct consequence of personal effort.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.