Quotes About Self-improvement

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Better mind yerselves

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Pearman, R. P., Lombardo, M. M., Eichinger, R. W. (2005) You: Being More Effective in Your MBTI Type. Minneapolis: Lominger Limited.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?

Be positive in all that you allow yourself to be, if you do not feel positive don't allow that self to be, instead transform into someone you want other people to be. Imagine you are like the you in heaven and heaven in others will come out of them to you.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

How you gone win, when you ain't right within? Uh-uh come again

How you gonna win when you ain't right within.

Yessir, it's a hard taskmaster, that guilt. I say, feel it, and wriggle a little bit if you have to, but then put it away. Get on with what you can change.

We justify our mistakes, by saying I'm just a human. But we can be more, be a better version of ourselves, if only we have the conviction to try.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets.