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Quotes About Self-improvement

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
~ Ram Dass
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
~ John Wooden
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
~ Alain de Botton
Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
~ Phyllis Diller
Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.
~ Kate Hudson
You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.
~ Chalene Johnson
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
~ Terence McKenna
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
~ Seth Godin
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development
~ Jim Rohn
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
~ Eric Maisel
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
~ Carmelo Anthony
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
~ Immanuel Kant
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
~ Mortimer Adler
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
~ Marisa Berenson
I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
~ Florence Griffith Joyner
If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
~ T.I.
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
~ Brian Tracy
Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.
~ E. J. Gold
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
~ Eric Hoffer
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.
~ John Dewey
Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.
~ Franz Bardon
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
~ Joel Edgerton