Quotes About Self-improvement

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Tell her happiness is just practice, " he said. "If only she acted happy, she would be happy.

The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours', isn't it?

Live vertically, not horizontally.

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Stop shoulding on yourself

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.