Quotes About Self-improvement

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Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

Al final de tantos sinsabores, creo que hasta me he vuelto más guapo, como sucede a quien sufre un proceso sin saber por qué.

Live so to get the approbation of your Other Self, and success if yours. But pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I've found it's 80 percent psychology and 20 percent skills.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Have we no sins of our own to amend that we have all this time for barking and biting at the vices of our neighbours?... Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

So after this is all over, do the producers of My 600 Pound Life find me or do I need to find them?

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

Negative programming. We write the programs. And we can rewrite the programs. If we drop the negative self- talk. If we drop the negative self- beliefs. If we drop the negative world view. Then we drop the negative programs. Think about the word negative. It refers to negative energy. What we put our energy into we create more of. Focusing on the negative is like praying for what we don't want. If we stop putting energy into what we don't want, then we stop creating it.

A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.

I really hope he shapes up, you know? He's got a good head on his shoulders when he's not trying to give himself alcohol poisoning.

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.

Happy If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass.

A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, is one of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense of guilt makes people try to be better. But an excessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem and perhaps of our capacity to grow and to act.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.