The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. (Quote by - Confucius)

O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. (Quote by - Henry James)

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Quote by - Foster C. Mcclellan)

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. (Quote by - John Updike)