Quotes About Self-improvement

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

When your ambition is so wrought that you're never satisfied, it takes a load of pressure off. Every spot on the ladder is equally disappointing because it is not the rung above. Which means I've perfectly filled my potential; I've reached as high as I'll ever get, the point of not good enough.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

And in all cases I have been pleasantly shocked to discover that by lowering my standards not only do I feel better about what I do but I tend to do it more effectively.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

It's pleasant to be with yourself as long as possible—if you've made yourself into someone worth spending time with."22

Why the constant rereading? Is it not obvious? Firstly, reading and rereading distract him from thinking about himself, from enumerating the reasons behind his self-imposed predicament, from dwelling on his endless plight. Secondly, he rereads to remind himself what truly good writing is, how it formidably contrasts with what he published. Perhaps he'll finally learn something. To apply to what? To apply to nothing.

I used to drink a lot of beer and brandy when I was in my twenties. Today, I read books and my hangovers are worth talking about.

The Way is to straighten oneself and await the direction of destiny.

Woodman, M. (1982) Addition to Perfection. Toronto: Inner City Books.

I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

Încrederea exagerat? în propria capacitate ne expune riscurilor ?i ne împiedic? s? evolu?m. Îndoiala de sine joac? un rol decisiv pentru maturitatea noastr? intelectual?.

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.