Quotes About Self-improvement

Day upon patient day, you must throw out your errors and begin again. So why did I not mind? [...] For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow.

God and your folks give you the face you're born with, but you earn the one you die with.

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

How much better things would be if we all tried to mold and shape our own thoughts and actions rather than those of others.

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Similarly, when a man is in love he is motivated to be the best he can be in order to serve others. When his heart is open, he feels so confident in himself that he is capable of making major changes. Given the opportunity to prove his potential, he expresses his best self.

Creía que no te arrepentías nunca de nada —comentó Mark. —Esto son errores, no arrepentimientos. Se acabaron los arrepentimientos, y es una pérdida de tiempo flagelarse por ellos. Pero los errores son movimientos en falso del pasado que pueden afectar al futuro. Con suerte, los errores pueden contenerse o incluso corregir.

True greatness is not about comparisons with others. Rather, it's about being the best possible version of myself each and every day!

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

Adding to that charm (as well as to the general air of funkiness), a large and ancient library desk took up almost half the lobby, and on it, overflowing, were dozens of brochures explaining CASA's work, announcements about classes and self-improvement programs, volunteer guidelines, knickknacks, craftsman bowls, several different magazines, and other specialty

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis