Quotes About Self-improvement

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

If you cling to the axe you're grinding, eventually you'll only hurt yourself.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away… ? , Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed/Psychoanalytic Writings

I don't fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Affirmations are like seeds planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.

Make the rest of your life the best of your life

Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow's experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go! There is no written law that says that because you once believed something, you have to continue to believe it forever.

It's hard enough to make changes when we want to, but to try to make someone else change when he or she doesn't want to is impossible

realized that I had the power to change my life if I was willing to change my thinking and release the patterns that kept me living in the past.

Fighting the negative is a total waste of time if you really want to make changes in your life.

When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a "failure"?

You can act yourself into a new way of thinking more easily than you can think yourself into a new way of acting.

Not feeling "good enough" interferes with the decision-making process. How can you make a good decision when you're not sure about yourself?

I am willing to change." Repeat this often. "I am willing to change. I am willing to change." You can touch your throat as you say this. The throat is the energy center in the body where change takes place. By touching your throat, you are acknowledging you are in the process of changing.

Later I learned to love and approve of all of me, even those qualities I thought were "not good enough." That was when I really began to make progress.

Say to yourself often, "I'm doing the best I can.

A couple of hours later, I said to myself, "I think we could change a few things. Let's adjust this, and let's adjust that." I refused to criticize myself in any way. If I had come off the podium and begun berating myself with, "Oh, you were so awful. You made this mistake, and you made that mistake," then I would have dreaded my second lecture. As it was, the second one was better than the first, and by the sixth one, I was feeling like a pro.

Blame is about giving away one's power. Responsibility gives us the power to make changes in our lives.

No matter how you approach it, or what subject matter we are talking about, we are only dealing with thoughts, and thoughts can be changed.

We need to stop all criticism.

Take one or two affirmations and write them 10 or 20 times a day. Read them aloud with enthusiasm. Make a song out of your affirmations and sing them with joy. Let your mind go over these affirmations all day long. Affirmations that are used consistently become beliefs and will always produce results, sometimes in ways that we cannot even imagine.

10 Ways to Love Yourself 1. Probably the most important key is to stop criticizing yourself.

It would be very easy just to blame our parents and be victims for the rest of our lives. But that wouldn't be much fun, and it certainly wouldn't get us out of our stuck position.