Quotes About Self-improvement

Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

Now ask yourself if you're really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won't. So, that means you might lose weight while you're on it, but you'll probably gain it back when you're off it because you haven't made any real lifestyle changes.

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Codependents don`t just wake up one day saying I think I'll move over into maturity and mental health

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve

not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and as wise as possible, not to care for the city's possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way.

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

If you expect to stop denunciation of your wrong way of life by putting people to death, there is something amiss with your reasoning. This way of escape is neither possible nor creditable; the best and easiest way is not to stop the mouths of others, but to make yourselves as well behaved as possible. This is my last message to you who voted for my condemnation.

El más honrado y el más sencillo no es reprimir a los demás, sino prepararse para ser lo mejor posible.

Si es cierto que lo agradable es bueno, no es posible que un hombre, sabiendo que puede hacer cosas mejores que las que hace, y conociendo que puede hacerlas, haga sin embargo las malas y deje las buenas, estando en su voluntad el poder escoger. Ser inferior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que estar en la ignorancia; y ser superior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que poseer la ciencia.

that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

No one likes to be criticized, she admitted, but criticism can be something like the desert wind that, in whipping the tender corn stalks, forces them to strike their roots down deeper for security.