Quotes About Self-improvement

He helped me get a coach, and I started to handle the issues that stopped me from advancing. I was raised to be 'nice' and not to brag, to play down my abilities.

Confidence spark Take inventory of your strengths—actually make a list of them. Call to mind your current supervisor and previous managers—what else would they say about your strengths? Take this all in.

By achieving these small goals you can use the winner effect to gain momentum on achieving bigger goals. Essentially you feel more confident.

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

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

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

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself–in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

You are not saving when you are taking away from yourself becoming more productive. You are really taking away from your ultimate capital.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

The iron is the best antidepressant I have every found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the body and the mind have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself. —HENRI AMIEL

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself

He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.