Quotes About Self-improvement

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.

To have more empowering goals, look within

Only the educated are free.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.