Quotes About Self-improvement

I didn't want who I was now to be the most I'd ever be.

Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up.

If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.

If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

The goal of your first marathon is to finish. You have no time goal. You're not endeavoring to win or place in your age category. Being a speed demon serves no purpose other than to court injury. Your only competition is you.

Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.

The feeling of unworthiness or that something is missing in our life is often at the root of excessive busy-ness and striving and therefore at the root of stress. By being very busy or working very hard, we often try to compensate for such feelings of lack. Alternately, we might seek love and approval from others or compulsively try to fix and improve ourselves.

Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor.

Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.

You're going to make mistakes, and you will learn from them. Say you're sorry, ask what you could have done better, learn - and move on.

Procrastination isn't a sign there's something wrong with us but that there's opportunity for growth in our lives.

To wish that the world were better is the best indicator that you need to be better, not the best indicator that the world isn't the best it can be.

When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If you don't take responsibility, then you'll never grow. You will never learn. And you will only repeat your mistakes.

You do not become outstanding by dwelling on your weaknesses. You become outstanding by focusing on your strengths.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

Each of us can do a little better than we have been doing. We can be a little more kind. We can be a little more merciful. We can be a little more forgiving. We can put behind us our weaknesses of the past and go forth with new energy and increased resolution to improve the world about us, in our homes, in our places of employment, in our social activities.

Masculinity grows not out of conquering the woman, but only out of conquering the man—and not another man, as in war, but oneself.