Quotes About Self-improvement

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

He'd forgotten how much he liked her. She wasn't like other women. She was smart and funny and a little bit sarcastic. She pushed his buttons and she made him want to be better. A deep sense of longing pulsed through his body. He just wanted a second chance—to prove to her he could be the man she needed. God, that's all I'm asking for.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DO NOT CONFRONT.

Is there something that those who are closest to you have been trying to tell you? Maybe you have an addiction, a hang-up, a weakness, a blind spot. If more than one person who loves you has been trying to help you see something that needs to change, maybe it's time to listen.

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

I was still pondering her comments, when she hit me with the bomb. She said that the only time a woman is ready for a man in her life is when she didn't need one.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

James thought he might learn from Daniel how to be alone and yet not lonely, how to be self-sufficient. One must not become selfish of course (Daniel was not selfish), but it would be a useful lesson

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

I don't believe in trying to be somebody you're not - just be a bigger, better version of yourself.

The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.