Quotes About Self-improvement

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

I think there are times when I can be a good thing.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.