Quotes About Self-improvement

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.