Quotes About Self-improvement

No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It's a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

Self-improvement is important, but it needs to be conducive to your happiness. If an ambition will not make you or those you care about any happier, then there really is no point in striving to be someone else. You should carefully consider your reasons for the ideal self you construct and then select goals and ambitions that are sensible and conducive to your happiness.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

A good goal in life is to be intentional. We've got to force ourselves to plug into the voice that tell us we're deserving to claim that richer, fuller life.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Damn, a mirror can be a lethal weapon, and self-knowledge a poisoned pill. I had been a self-centered and egotistical jock with all the trappings of stunted male adolescence. Back then, I had yet to develop the empathy for others that marks the passage into manhood.

most people looking for help with relationship problems react all day to the actions of other people and thereby generate their own negative reactions to people. This, he insists, is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed.

I dislike myself when I act like a passive wimp or an aggressive bully. It feels good to feel good, and I want all the good feeling I can get. Essentially, emotional maturity demands on-going, total acceptance of people, places, things and situations as they are, rather than as I might wish them to be.

On a daily basis, she accepts those facts and stays busy making the best of her own life.

He says there are a total of 54 negative emotions such as fear, anger, depression, resentment, loneliness, etc., and he claims that every one of them is based on blame. Furthermore, he insists that anyone can eliminate all 54 negative emotions from their lives by accepting full responsibility for their feelings and thereby no longer blaming any other person or situation for how they feel.

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us." I take this to mean that we need to take our eyes off what the other person has done to us and look at what we have done to ourselves.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Self-pity is an indulgence for artists and noblemen. Don't spend any more time with it than you must. Hear what it says, learn from it if you can, then move on.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

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People with BPD need their friends and family members to be stable and clear—not to reject them and not to smother them. They need you to let them take care of themselves and to not do things for them that they can do for themselves. The best way to do this and help them is by working on yourself.

To get unstuck, you must take a different approach. Stop focusing so much on your family member and take a close look at yourself. Work on becoming more of your own person.

persisting for change, and the DEAR (Describe, Express, Assert, and Reinforce) technique.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.