Quotes About Self-improvement

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.

comparison are designed to make someone fall short

She wasn't the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn't be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.

I'm a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I'm working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself." She

Pitam se ako postoji nešto što želiš,želiš to ve? neko vrijeme,što bi poduzeo?Ako to želim,zašto to nemam?Zato što do sada baš nisi uložio napor da to dobiješ.A zašto nisam?Jesam li spor ili samo glup?

some brains. The second was that I take this opportunity, this gift, and make something of myself. I guess I looked like a balloon that had its air pricked out, because she laughed and laughed, and she gave me a slap on the arm. She told me if I needed to give her something, if I needed to do that to be happy, she'd like a pair of red shoes with heels and open toes. Size nine. Wouldn't she be some sight going to church Sundays in those red shoes?

It's discouraging not to be good at what you've chosen as your life's work. Your life is far from done, so you've more than time enough to choose again. And I'll wager you were better at it than you decided to believe.

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Self improvement is masturbation...

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

Our way of get­ting nos­tal­gic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all be­cause we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, rein­vent our­selves. Adapt.

The worst strat­egy I could pur­sue is self-?im­prove­ment.

An ancient truism had once decreed, Self improvement is masturbation..

the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings

The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past.

Getting fired," Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

La autoperfección es simple masturbación, sólo la autodestrucción conlleva evolución

What you have to do is work on yourself. Make yourself attractive through the things you do, the principles you hold dear, and the goals you've set for yourself. Then you can try to get a woman. You can't expect her to love you just because you love her back. That only happens when the woman is weak.

I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all?

He'd made nothing of his life, so the best he could imagine was to conceive another of himself. A do-over: Jimmy 2.0. As if to give himself a second shot, and doing so would shift the burden to this new him and give the current Jimmy permission to squander what was left of his years.