Quotes About Self-improvement
If you can answer yes, then you are clearly motivated to change. You will probably succeed in gaining greater inner peace and self-esteem, and you will increase your effectiveness in life. This
~ David D. Burns
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Train yourself to recognize and write down the self-critical thoughts as they go through your mind; b. Learn why these thoughts are distorted; and c. Practice talking back to them so as to develop a more realistic self-evaluation system
~ David D. Burns
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Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria
~ David Farland
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It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.
~ David Foster Wallace
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I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically why so many of my high school peers are still there in Philo even now, selling one another insurance, drinking supermarket liquor, watching television, awaiting the formality of their first cardiac.
~ David Foster Wallace
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I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am...self-centered and careerist and not true to standards and values that transcend my own petty interests...but then I countenance the fact here at least here I am worrying about it; so then I feel better about myself...but this soon becomes a vehicle for feeling superior to imagined Others...I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am--so where does that put me.
~ David Foster Wallace
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It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.
~ David Foster Wallace
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He'd cure himself by excess.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Here is how to read the monthly E.T.A. and U.S.T.A. and O.N.A.N.T.A. rankings the way Himself read scholars' reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas. Learn to care and not to care. They mean the rankings to help you determine where you are, not who you are. Memorize your monthly rankings, and forget them. Here is how: never tell anyone where you are.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest
~ William Shakespeare
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
~ William Shakespeare
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Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.
~ Unknown
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INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES
~ William Ury
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Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES
~ William Ury
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
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If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.
~ Winston Graham
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Ross said: "I'll tell you what is best for the other man, always, and that's work. Work is a challenge. I've told you – I tried to drink myself out of my misery once. It didn't succeed. Only work did. It's the solvent to so much. Build yourself a wall, even if there's hell in your heart, and when it's done – even at the end of the first day – you feel better.
~ Winston Graham
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Marnie, I won't say, Make him happy, but I will say, Be happy yourself. I think you're capable of much more than you think
~ Winston Graham
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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Look for another bed if yours is occupied. I don't want the miserable little bit of your life. You're just not enough for me, my boy. First, you have to live. Kick ass, and let yourself be ass-kicked. One day, when you're totally drunk, up to the top, when you're paralyzed, struggling to move and lying in the mud, then we can talk again. But for now, get real, ok? And now your clear the premises, my darling boy. Your little handful of life is not fucking enough. Keep it. I don't want it.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
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I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
~ Woody Allen
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The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
~ Woody Allen
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Odio usar la palabra ´superarse´: se oye una prángana y además cursi. Solamente las prostitutas se superan: el dinero las hace más y más y más putas.
~ Xavier Velasco
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