Quotes About Self-improvement

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.

I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can't overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.

he believed in the social arrangements of capitalism regardless of what capitalism did to him. Naturally, he was a positive thinker, and in his ability to overlook the world's cruelty and focus exclusively on reforming himself he embodied what the historian Donald Meyer has called the "social anesthetic" side of positive thinking.5

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

If he were not as he is, he would be better than himself.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

First, see if you can make three positive comments for every negative one (and, by the way, a count is one negative comment).

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.

Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places

we say people feel empty when they lack goals or close relationships with others or lack a sense of meaning in their lives. This is a lack of external relationships, clear personal goals, or internal tranquility. It is resolved by developing self-confidence, setting priorities in life, and letting go of unrealistic expectations.

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Recognizing your own self as the enemy186

Kat's idea of self-improvement is a good bikini wax.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

For years, I was a compulsive spender," says J.D. Roth. "But when my wife and I bought a century-old farmhouse, I finally hit rock bottom. I'd run out of money." J.D., who sold custom-built cardboard boxes, had always been interested in self-improvement and writing. Now, broke and in debt, he decided to reinvent himself.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.