Quotes About Self-improvement

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

I hold myself to a high standard.

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

I do not think of myself as a standard bearer for Asian players. I just try to work hard for myself.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

The challenge itself is to exceed certain high standards you've set for yourself.

I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.

I have my own goals, standards and have my own pressure.

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.