Quotes About Self-improvement

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare.

It just wasn't for me, and anyway, those people were a lot more far gone than I was. More in my father's league than mine. I just cut back a little. Less beer and liquor, more jogging. I was fine.

I used to be an angry man myself. I'm a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

Through his self-improvement tips for cultivating personal virtues and his civic-improvement schemes for furthering the common good, he helped to create, and to celebrate, a new ruling class of ordinary citizens

This velvet-tongued and sweetly passive style of circumspect argument would make him seem sage to some, insinuating and manipulative to others, but inflammatory to almost nobody. The method would also become, often with a nod to Franklin, a staple in modern management guides and self-improvement books.

he did criticize his son for his weak and un-persuasive writing style. In reaction, the precocious young teen devised for himself a self-improvement course

The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. "Man is something that should be overcome"—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Stay away from the mentality of using the credit card compulsorily and invest on yourself. Wealth has not created mankind but mankind has created wealth. Live your life in the simplest manner possible.

We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

True nobility isn't about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

Instead of hating yourself, develop positive feelings. Learn from the error, and resolve not to repeat it but don't associate it with your self-worth.

Only you can improve your lot or make yourself happy. It is up to you to take control of your own mind, and then practice feeling and behaving in the ways that you choose.

Do the Tao Now Copy the following words and apply them to yourself: I came from greatness. I must be like what I came from. I will never abandon my belief in my greatness and the greatness of others. Read these words daily, perhaps by posting them conspicuously where you can see them. They will serve to remind you of the truth of your own greatness. Meditate for ten minutes today, focusing on your inner greatness.

spend a long period of time in study and self-cultivation