Quotes About Self-improvement

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Flatter yourself critically.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

I beg you most humbly to go on loving me just a little and to make do with these poor congratulations until I get some new drawers made for my small and narrow brainbox in which I can keep the brains that I still intend to acquire.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Envidiar es renegar de sí mismo, joven. Te vuelves triste y malvado y no ganas nada a cambio. Los únicos momentos que importan son los que nos producen alguna alegría. Lo demás es puro derroche. Si quieres escribir, escribe. Pero no es criticando el talento ajeno como se afianza el propio. El talento no es negociable.

Men needed the test of competition to find their better selves, Lombardi insisted, whether it was in sports, politics or business.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts –' he nodded towards me '– and realizing our highest potential.

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness, a weak mind that had to be overcome.

In Buddhism"—the lama tilted his head back challengingly—"we would say that you are lazy." Sam's reaction was the opposite of his usual. Color drained from his face. "Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,

It teaches us to become more aware of our own mental behavior, to replace negative patterns of thought with more positive ones.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts and realizing our highest potential.

We're all works in progress. It takes courage to be open about our flaws, but that's what makes us authentic.

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.