Quotes About Self-improvement

By creating an ideal in your mind, you can identify yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby transforming yourself into it."16

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. You empower yourself with love and respect, letting go of standards of perfection and refusing to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that only continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, you can vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility. Apathetic

Run your life on this concept: Each day is great. Where I am is just fine, and so is where I'm going. That's called growth motivation, and it's a choice you can make right now.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Instead of thinking of anything as being unfair, you can decide what you really want, and then set about devising strategies for attaining it, independent of what anyone else in the world wants or does. The simple facts are that everyone is different, and no amount of your bitching about others having it better than you will bring about any positive self-changes.

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.

If you genuinely love you, then complaining to others who can do nothing for you becomes absurdly impossible to defend. And if you notice things in yourself (and others) that you dislike, rather than complaining you can actively set about taking the necessary corrective steps.

They want to be victorious and effective on their own, rather than gaining through the shortcomings of others.

Se você faz algo, seja lá o que for,e não gosta do fato em si, ou de você mesmo por tê-lo feito, pode jurar que eliminará tal comportamento voluntariamento, no futuro. Mas experimentar uma sentença de culpa autoimposta é uma viagem neurótica que você pode precisar fazer. A culpa não ajuda. Não só mantém você imobilizado, mas também estimula as oportunidades de que venha a repetir o comportamento indesejável.

practice living without limits by gathering virtue and modeling it.

You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become more and greater, that is enough.

You may have a social disease, one that will not go away with a simple injection. You are quite possibly infected with the sepsis of low-esteem, and the only known cure is a massive dose of self-love.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

Dad nodded. "There's a lot you could do to not have people call you that, you know.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

You can stare into the past but only your future is within your control.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

O único monstro com que precisas de te preocupar na vida é aquele que olha para ti todas as manhãs, ao espelho. Doma-o, torna-te amigo dele e conseguirás lidar com tudo na vida.

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.