Quotes About Self-improvement

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

If you are open to your growth potential, you will attract that for which you are willing to be responsible."  Rudi

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.