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Quotes About Self-improvement

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
~ William Hazlitt
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
~ Frances Hesselbein
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
~ John Quincy Adams
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
~ bell hooks
When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Being yourself doesn't attract women... being your most attractive self, does.
~ Zan Perrion
If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.
~ Hillary Clinton
If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.
~ Reem Acra
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
~ Naomi Wolf
Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
~ Sandra Bullock
If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.
~ Walter Huston
You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.
~ Tina Fey
Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.
~ Mary Decker
I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
~ Claudia Schiffer
Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves
~ Phyllis Chesler
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
~ Mary Astell
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.
~ Ilona Andrews
Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women love to impress and be their best.
~ Martin Lawrence
When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.
~ Neil Strauss
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
~ Socrates
Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land