Quotes About Self-improvement

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Nothing was more nauseating than people who constantly complained about their life, but did nothing about it.