Quotes About Self-improvement

Don't play to your strengths," Jess told her. "Strengthen your weaknesses.

If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can't seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don't invent a new self, you instead build on what's already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we're at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.

Always questioning your motivations is a healthy thing, but fearing your capacity for doing the wrong thing so that you retreat from many aspects of life is a terrible error in itself.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it.

the grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered.

What a shame that he pushed people and relationships away. With a personality transplant he would have the potential to be more than eye candy.

The ad had been the pivotal point of her life. It had forced her to take an honest look at her existence. She couldn't bear to go on another day the way she had been. Pretending to be happy. Imagining so much that was never there and never would be unless she took action.

All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.

No man has ever crawled out from under his wife's criticism to be a better man—no matter how justified her condemnation.

A wise woman doesn't take anything for granted. She is thankful to be loved and seeks to make herself more lovely.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

My habit when I've been humiliated is to go out and buy a book.

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Your natural gifts are the key to fulfilling your potential for success. Find your natural gifts, develop them and then use them to be the best you can be.

Now, I am not basically a nice person. I _am_ snice, arrogant, and short-tempered. I try to overcome these things, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.

I wasn't a great athlete.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.

I've not been the most athletic person.

After I lost some weight and got really healthy, I got more athletic and healthy every year, more confident every year.

Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.