Quotes About Self-improvement

Each day is a tiny trial in which you have the opportunity to improve yourself,

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway. pg 216

my father had been brutal on me, but with him out of my life I had in turn become tough on myself. I knew enough about the game to be a pro but had never learned to have fun at it.

She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that... Well, then she didn't rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed wit oil. That was what she hoped would happen.

You couldn't fight the tide or change the wind. And if there was a storm? Well, a girl should batten down and bail, not run the rigging. How could she help but make a mess of things, the state that she was in? She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

Vaig fullejar el registre per buscar el nom del mestre i després vaig retrocedir amb el dit cap al lloc on constrava el títol de l'assignatura, escrit amb tinta negra i fresca: "Introducció a la Manera de no Ser un Ase Estúpid".

title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

Es mejor conocer los propios límites que calcular mal las propias habilidades y perder el control.

It is every man's job to improve himself. A man without the benefits of education is hardly more than an animal.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, 'What's wrong with it? How can I make it better?', you are more likely to get a truthful, critical answer.

But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.

If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans.

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

turns out that one can screw up being happy by trying to be happy—or at least by trying to be happy in the wrong way.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise; who, though young and strong, is full of sloth; whose will and thoughts are weak; that lazy and idle man will never find the way to enlightenment.

No one on this earth is accountable to bring you what you need or want. It's not up to your wife or girlfriend to fill your emotional holes. That work is yours. Your boss isn't on the hook to provide a living for you. That's your job. It's not your minister's role to maintain your relationship with God. That's up to you. Your kids are yours to nurture, not yours to nurture you.

Many times expecting personal transformation to happen without humility is like expecting a car to move forward without fuel.