Quotes About Self-improvement

never spend so much time on your studies that you neglect your social skills.

This means that you yourself are largely the agent of anything bad that happens to you. With more prudence, wiser policies, and greater vision, you could have avoided the danger. So when something goes wrong, look deep into yourself—not in an emotional way, to blame yourself or indulge your feelings of guilt, but to make sure that you start your next campaign with a firmer step and greater vision.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror. There

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. —WILLIAM JAMES What

The trouble is so many people run around avoiding things their entire lives. It's just too uncomfortable for them to look in the mirror at the roughest and darkest parts of themselves. Or they're terrified of spending five seconds looking bad and saying, "You know what, I fucked up. This is on me. I didn't do this or think about that, and so this happened. But here's what I'm going to do to help, and here's what I'm going to do next time.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.

Mistakes can be fixed, but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

ViaÈ›a este cel mai bun dasc?l .În majoritatea cazurilor ,viaÈ›a nu-È›i vorbeÈ™te ,ci te împinge de la spate .De fiecare dat? e ca È™i cum viaÈ›a È›i-ar spune :TrezeÈ™te-te ,vreau s? înveÈ›i ceva .

God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

That's all right, said the Scarecrow. You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.

But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything? I

This was a wise resolution, and the witch-queen abided by it for many years. She was not very bad, this Zixi, for it must be admitted that few have the courage to acknowledge their faults and strive to correct them as she did.

I didn't think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.