Quotes About Self-improvement

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

What you know has produced what you have; if you're not happy with what you have, then improve what you know.

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head. On the contrary, the excellent man is he who contemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Learning from your mistakes does not happen automatically, it requires thinking and reflection.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

Life is a competition, but it is not a race against anyone else. The real journey is against yourself and the true victory is being able to maintain your humanity.

We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.

Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn't read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books.

In the years following my first hospitalization and my first explorations into myself, I determined to become someone I could live with, if not, in the words of the therapist, someone I could love. My first efforts were based on my blanket acceptance that I wasn't a very good person, and that I should change those parts of myself that could be changed. I hadn't yet realized that I'd simply internalized all the verbal assaults that characterized the first eighteen years of my life.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading. The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

My French friend tells me that someday, if I work at it, I may no longer be flattering myself when I say I can speak a very little French.

suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman