Quotes About Self-improvement

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Resentment is a method of self harm. "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure.

Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life. Everything else is commentary.

By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person.

Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another.

This very day start your new life. Approach every experience in a new frame of mind — with a new state of consciousness. Assume the noblest and the best for yourself in every respect and continue therein.

If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples' opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.

Most of us think that we are kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble; but an uncritical observation of our reactions to life will reveal a self that is not all kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble. And it is is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change…

The very first act of correction or cure is always 'revise'. One must start with oneself. It is one's attitude that must be changed.

Revision is of greatest importance when the motive is to change oneself, when there is a sincere desire to be something different, when the longing is to awaken the ideal active spirit of forgiveness.

Now, walk with your head up high, knowing that you have learned from your mistakes; and from now on try to imagine the best as you perceive the best to be, knowing that these acts must project themselves in this world.

The fact that it does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure.

No matter what the problem is, no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself.

while I was making excuses, others just like me were making progress.

Successful people have successful habits. Mediocre people have mediocre habits. And it all starts with a choice.

Again, fix the outsides and maybe my insides won't be such a dark place.

Villeneuve was little happier. Acutely aware of the need to redeem himself in the Emperor's eyes,

Insull was a serious and driven young man. Born into a family of temperance crusaders, he spent his boyhood poring over books with titles like Lives of the Great Engineers and Self-Help.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.