Quotes About Self-improvement

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you DON'T want.

Instead of focusing too much on improving lifestyle focus on improving inner self.

I hate seeing people with so much POTENTIAL throw their whole life away. You only get one life so make the best of it.

We always have a chance to make our life beautiful. But its the anger, ego, jealousy, selfishness which hampers our chance.

Sometimes removing some people out of your life makes space for better people.

Every night when he slept, I stood over his bed and told myself: tomorrow I will do better.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

To tell the truth, I was looking forward to school tomorrow. I was actually going to secondary school. I could make something of myself, do something with my life. Once I had a proper education behind me, no one could turn around and say, 'You're not smart enough or good enough.' No one. I was on my way UP! And with a proper education behind me, nothing could stand between Sephy and me. Nothing. three.

Wünsche, an die wir uns zu sehr klammern, rauben uns leicht etwas von dem, was wir sein sollen und können. Wünsche, die wir um der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe willen immer wieder überwinden, machen uns – umgekehrt – reicher.

For all the strides the Nation [of Islam] had made in promoting self-improvement in the lives of its members, its political isolation had left it powerless to change the external conditions that bounded their freedoms (177).

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

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Ma mère m'a gavé d'histoires d'amour idéal, c'est un lourd handicap que d'avoir des idéaux. - Pourquoi ? - Ça place la barre très haut. - Pour l'autre ? - Non, pour soi-même.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

Like a swimmer who throws himself into the water in order to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people to see him.