Quotes About Self-improvement

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man