Quotes About Self-improvement

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

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Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler — quieter, warmer.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Only human beings have the ability to seek growth and self-improvement. We have the capacity to consciously change the direction of our lives, to enrich and deepen our lives instead of just allowing them to flow on aimlessly.

But a man will only make you happy for a while, while a skill, an occupation – learning something – will always satisfy you.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Fake it 'til you make it.

One day at a time. Fake it 'til you make it.

I can always feel better, look better, do better. I can learn more, sell more, buy more. I can do more, and do it faster. But what is the price of this perfection? Joy.

Speaking of driving time—join the Automobile University. If you drive twenty-five thousand miles a year at an average speed of 46 mph, you will spend about the same amount of time in your car as an average college student spends in the classroom. The question then is, what are you doing with that time? You can listen to any one of thousands of programs and transform your success.)

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

You have an ideal in your mind, and you're measuring yourself against your ideal, rather than against the actual progress you've made. This is why you're unhappy with what you've done, and it's probably why you're unhappy with everything in your life.

Personal confidence comes from making progress toward goals that are far bigger than your present capabilities.

Cleaning my hand print off of a mirror. Don't high-five your reflection. Just nod or wink.