Quotes About Self-improvement

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Life shouldn't be about making yourself a better person, life should be about bettering your self to be the person you want to be.

Never exaggerate on someone's mistake to make oneself comfortable, but with Love and Honesty, learn to motivate and grow thyself.

Overlook faults, understand, don't be selfish and above all don't compare yourself to another......love will definitely remain within you...

Fall in love, And you would find a better person inside you.

We spend too much time looking for the perfect person to love instead of perfecting the love we give!

Don't spend your entire life looking for love. First learn to love yourself, then Mrs/Mr Right will come to you.

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

By recording your goals and dreams on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own

Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; You only can act yourself into new ways of thinking.

This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication. I highly recommend reading this book and applying the Nonviolent Communication process it teaches. It is a significant first step toward changing our communication and creating a compassionate world. –Arun Gandhi

Assim, quando fazemos algo pouco enaltecedor, nosso desafio é nos autoavaliarmos a cada momento, de modo que nos inspiremos a mudar (1) na direção em que gostaríamos de ir e (2) por respeito e compaixão com nós mesmos, em vez de por ódio, culpa ou vergonha.

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now. Ask yourself, "What am I willing to change now?" Just do that. That's more than enough. For now.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

We can't admit that we need to change—either because we're unaware that a change is desirable, or, more likely, we're aware but have reasoned our way into elaborate excuses that deny our need for change.

When we regret our own decisions—and do nothing about it—we are no better than a whining employee complaining about his superiors. We are yelling at an empty boat, except it's our boat.

You can see how, over time, it would be easy for each of us to cross the line and begin to make a virtue of our flaws—simply because the flaws constitute what we think of as "me.

Mike thought a minute, and then said, "I'm going to change, and the reason I'm going to change has nothing to do with money and it has nothing to do with this firm. I'm going to change because I have two sons, and if they were receiving this same feedback from you in twenty years, I'd be ashamed.

The next time you hear yourself saying, "I'm just no good at . . . ," ask yourself, "Why not?