Quotes About Self-improvement

I made a deal that I would spend money on only one thing: getting smarter. I bought books. I would skip a meal and skip watching television, but I wouldn't skip an investment in my brain.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

you say I'm worthless yet you waste your time on me. you say I can't do anything right but you still waste your breath on me. you tell me I'm stupid yet you still try to teach me. you tell me to live my life yet you give me no life to live?

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Eventually, he could stay underwater for three minutes and forty-five seconds. People kept jumping in to save him.

True, she never got a real M.B.A., but she had taken courses online and worked her way through list after list of so-called Great Books. She read the newspaper carefully. She was better informed on current events than almost anyone she knew. To have Sophie laugh at her, to throw her lack of formal education in her face— That

I don't have time to ruins others lives. I'm too busy making my own better.

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

Todos temos defeitos, querida. Cada um de nós. E, acredite em mim, todos cometemos erros. (...) Você só precisa dar uma boa olhada em si mesma, mudar o que precisa ser mudado e seguir em frente, querida.

You said you've changed...But I'm just wondering if you really have. If you've, you know, looked inside yourself to figure out what you need to change.

Oh, please," he said coldly. The way he regarded me, as if I were lower than a straw wrapper, reminded me that he and Jeb were friends. "People like you don't change." My throat closed. It was too much, that he would come down on me in the same way that everyone else on the planet had. "But . . . " It came out wavery. I tried again, and in a voice that wobbled despite my best intentions, I said, "Can't anyone see I'm trying?

You've been moping around for too long...It's time you grew into your next self.

All it takes is the right training, and we step out, over the boundaries of our bodies and their limitations.

Strive to achieve a positive frame of mind. Cultivate thinking in a positive way. Every day read inspirational books and articles

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

After trauma, any way that a person can find to pick themselves up and become a new and better version of themselves makes them stronger.

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our "self-improvement.

first, recognize them; second, try to overcome them; third, take a vow never to re-create such things again.

Dating is the gym class of life, not the advanced calculus class.

I'm a B+ student of life.