Quotes About Self-improvement

People who don't make something good of what they've got are bound to end up desperate.

It's never too late to become what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger.

I'm a bookaholic on the road to recovery. Ha, not really. I'm on the road to the bookstore.

I keep trying to lose weight — but it keeps finding me!

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

It is better to have your nose in a book than in someone else's business.

Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

The thing I like most of all is personal achievement--not achievement for the world's applause, but achievement for my own delight.

mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

You've got to just accept what has happened and get on with it… If you go back over every single decision that led to that moment… You'll never get better. You'll always be in that moment.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

Never be ashamed of anything! If you've made a fool of yourself, just don't do it again. But being ashamed is only being a fool twice for the same reason.

Ambition means wanting better for yourself and expecting more out of life and aligning your skills and work ethic to achieve it. Ambition means being proactive about what you do and how you are rewarded.

What I am proposing is that we be honest with ourselves and instead of stretching to be the dumbest person at the level above you, choose instead to be the smartest person at the level below you. You're guaranteed to get there and the effort is not large. Over ambition is a ticket to underachievement and in the case of the medical profession, it's downright selfish.

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

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.

Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast, until at last he grovels, a lost creature, in the mire of his own befoulment. By self-discipline a man rises higher and higher, approximating more and more nearly to the divine, until at last he stands erect in his divine dignity, a saved soul, glorified by the radiance of his purity. Let a man discipline himself, and he will live; let a man cease to discipline himself, and he will perish.

Los pensamientos en la mente nos hacen lo que somos Nos forjan y moldean. Si albergas en tu mente pensamientos inferiores, el dolor te seguirá como sigue el arado al buey . . . Si en cambio tus pensamientos son elevados, te seguirá la dicha como tu propia sombra, es un hecho.