Quotes About Self-improvement

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Averse alike to flatter, or offend; Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last.

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

I'm nearly thirty, and up to now I've lived as the grass grows. What terrible emptiness! Nothing but selfishness and indifference to others. I must pull myself up before it is too late. Ivan Ilich Telegin.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

?nsan, tekrar yücelmesi için kendini yeni ba?tan in?a etmek zorundad?r. Ve bu yenile?meyi ?zd?rap çekmeden yapamaz. Çünkü o hem mermerdir, hem de heykeltra?. Hakiki biçimini yeniden kazanmak için, büyük çekiç darbelerini kendi maddesine indirerek k?v?lc?mlar ç?karacakt?r.

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

Self-loathing is a waste of time.

I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I think it's not controversial to say there's a lot of us who need to be reminded that we're wasting our time and making things worse for ourselves if we're carrying anger around with us all the time.

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.