Quotes About Self-improvement

"The grass is greener where you water it."

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

The doer alone learneth.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.

Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming back: Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn't traveled around it a time or two?

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 Such

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself." To have a purpose for which one can be hard upon others, but above all upon one's self; to have a purpose for which one will do almost anything except betray a friend,—that is the final patent of nobility, the last formula of the superman.

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

we must not expect the world to improve much faster than ourselves

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.