Quotes About Self-improvement

focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

I was just going to tell you that I'm really willing to change. That's one thing about me; I've always been open to change." "That," said Socrates, "is one of your biggest illusions. You've been willing to change clothes, hairstyles, women, apartments, and jobs. You are all too willing to change anything except yourself, but change you will.

The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

The most significant factors in our success are things we have the power to change.

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - Ishmael

My confidence came from always needing to compete.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

When you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while – give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost – but, then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake.

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.

"Watching a person who successfully loses fifty pounds and changes her life is more inspirational than listening to a fitness coach with a perfect body."

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught.

As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

"It is never too late to be what you might have become."

There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.

If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less.

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.