Quotes About Self-improvement

At any rate, it was pretty inspiring. If Sharlee could shake off any doubts about herself and her abilities, he figured he ought to be able to do the same.

She wasn't going to let the voice win today. She wasn't going to let all those bad feelings come crashing down on her, like they had so many times in the past. She was getting better.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

If you can't Change yourself, Don't Hope that other Will.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.