Quotes About Self-improvement

That's true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living." I

If you learn how to work and grow, you will find that your life cannot be destroyed by the outside world. If you have to work eight hours a day, give three or one that belongs to you without money. This "Who Are You?" has to be reinforced.

The important thing you need to learn is to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

When I began to read, a whole new world opened to me. I became interested in books. I still could not read very well, but each new book made it easier. I did not mind spending many hours, because reading was enjoyment, rather than work. When I reached this point, I accumulated books and read one after another. I did this all through my senior year in high school and the summer following. By the time I really knew my way through a book, I had graduated from high school.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

Forgiveness calls on deep reserves of moral courage: the courage to break out of the spiral of self-pity; the courage to set aside resentment; the courage to rise above biterness; the courage to act well, when all our instincts call on us to act badly. p112

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Ese grado de sensibilidad, uno tiene que y uno puede desarrollarlo. La capacidad de amar es infinita, es infinita, infinita. Desarrollémosla.

The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant is related to his total person, so is the finite self of any particular lifetime related to its underlying Atman.

Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.

I came to the realization that I needed to become my best self in order to attract the kind of guy I would want to marry. If I wanted someone truly fabulous, I had better become truly fabulous first.

Ramadan is a boot camp for the Muslim body and soul. In this Holy month, make everyday count.

to be all the fuck that I can be, you know?

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.