Quotes About Self-improvement

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

It's important to keep in mind that you have control over your year, If you don't like the direction your life is going—then you have the power to change it. If you're not happy where you're at, figure out where you want to be and make it happen.

Why should you waste your time in idleness, and torment yourself with unprofitable wishes? Books are at hand; books from which most sciences and languages can be learned. Read, analyse, digest; collect facts, and investigate theories: ascertain the dictates of reason, and supply yourself with the inclination and the power to adhere to them.

Nobody wants to die! So why do people let themselves go? Why kill yourself off? Stop and think, get fit and strong! Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart! There is no excuse - you know it!

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

The price of tuition for Self University is desire. Your degree is a better life.

I've also learned, thank goodness, that anger and resentment are just like poison. Left to fester, they will destroy and attack any chance or opportunity you'll ever have of being more and living fully. Fear,

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.

Make the betht of uth; not the wurtht!

I sometimes derived the impression, from his manner, or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending in that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.

Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.

Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.

Do you speak to yourself in gentle tones - encouraging yourself to do better and live according to the highest and most noble standard? Or do you put yourself down and speak words of criticism and judgment over yourself?

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Getting good grades and learning things is the key to any door you want to open in the future. If you don't try your best, you are hurting yourself the most.

Never let schooling interfere with education.