Quotes About Self-improvement

Novelist H. G. Wells held that wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measures of success whatsoever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have been and what we have become. In other words, success comes as the result of growing to our potential.

Never forget that the greatest reward of pursuing a dream is who you become as a result.

El crecimiento personal es como una inversión; no es cuestión de oportunidad sino de tiempo.

Psychologist and New York Times best-selling author Phil McGraw states, "I always say that the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You've got to be your own best friend first." How can you be "best friends" with someone you don't know or don't like? You can't. That's why it's so important to find out who you are and work to become someone you like and respect.

3. We should work on changing ourselves before trying to improve others. A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.

Average" is what failures claim to be when their friends ask them why they are not more successful. "Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the top. Which of these are you? "Average" means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, an also-ran, a non-entity. Being "average" is the lazy person's cop-out; it's lacking guts to take a stand in life; it's living by default.

Time is valuable. Psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck said, "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Creo que las personas deberían esforzarse por ser las mejores en su área, no en su organización.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves—to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6.

Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.

Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.

You can't help people become winners unless they want to win. Champions become champions from within, not from without.

The problem is that most of us have uphill dreams but downhill habits.

Change begins on the inside.

You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level. It just doesn't happen.

I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

Message to my ex: thanks for everything, now I am more stronger than before & now I don't need you. I can walk on my own.

You're not ready for your next if you're still trying to impress your ex.

Your EX is just a living proof that you can do better. A perfect EXample of what you shouldn't want, a motivation to get what you deserve.

STOP spending all of your time and energy on people that don't care about you and START using your time to better yourself and your own life

If the relationship doesn't make you a better person then you are with wrong one.

When your girlfriend breaks your heart, don't say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.