Quotes About Self-improvement

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Q: How can I help myself? A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi.

Tienes que mejorarte a ti mismo en un nivel superior si has de ser capaz de ayudar a los demás y no tan sólo de llorar por ellos.

El automatismo del hombre se supera, en palabras de Dhun'Nun, proponiéndose "ser como tú eras, donde tú eras, antes de que lo fueras".

The beginning for the Traveller on the Path is to start to look for faults in himself which he previously sought in others; and to begin to perceive in others the merits which he formerly imagined to be his own.

Consejos de Bahaudín Tú quieres ser llenado. Pero algo que está lleno primero tiene que ser vaciado. Vacíate para que puedas llenarte adecuadamente con el cumplimiento de estos consejos, que puedes realizar como deberes hacia ti mismo. Primero: Nunca sigas ningún impulso para enseñar, sin importar lo fuerte que pudiera ser. El mandato para enseñar no se siente como un impulso. Pensadores de Oriente.

Si no te reprochas a ti mismo", dice Saadi, "no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

Por qué la gente siempre pregunta si los libros son buenos, sin preguntarse si están en condiciones de beneficiarse de ellos?

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

En el pragmatismo 'el hacer determina el ser', el carácter depende de la acción, nos formamos conforme avanzamos, gracias a nuestras propias elecciones.

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so that you can actualize the choices you have already made based on your enlightenment.

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

When we sin or make a mistake, we try to learn from it. We don't hold on to it and nurse our feelings of unworthiness.

These men are constipated, ugly, and dumb, I can change that, anybody can with hard work.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are the best version of you.

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In the presence of a bad man, turn your gaze within!

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The demands that a gentleman makes are upon himself; those that a small man makes are upon others.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.