Quotes About Self-improvement

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can try to imitate it: and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, when their times comes.

Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good. And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?

And now you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

The problem was I wasn't very good at things. Everybody knows somebody like that. And I was the guy I knew. I wasn't very dependable either. And I guess I didn't smell too good most of the time. I didn't have much going for me, to be honest.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can't properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.

Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

Bhavana translates as "development through mental training." To me, this strikes the mark; meditation really is about human development.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.