Quotes About Self-improvement

He who shaneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

I would say each day I'm still growing and still learning, but negatives, obviously they're always going to criticise me for my goals and assists, which I need to add to my game if I want to be compared with the people I'm playing with.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

I'm here to clean minds of negativity and build confidence in others.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.