Self Improvement Quotes
|
|
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. (Quote by - Sir J. Stephen)
The most useless are those who never change through the years. (Quote by - Sir James M. Barrie)
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence. (Quote by - Michael J. Gelb)
Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (Quote by - Willam Faulkner)
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
To unlock the door to the future, you must first possess the key to the past. (Quote by - Joseph P. Martino)
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. (Quote by - Buddha)
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. (Quote by - Theodore Martin)
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. (Quote by - Socrates)
If you don't program yourself, life will program you! (Quote by - Les Brown)
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. (Quote by - Mme. Du Deffand)
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror. (Quote by - Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg)
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. (Quote by - Sidney Madwed)
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. (Quote by - B. R. Haydon)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. (Quote by - Steve Ballmer)
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. (Quote by - Louise Hay)
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. (Quote by - Charles A. Lindbergh)
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. (Quote by - Berthold Auerbach)
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. (Quote by - James Allen)
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
hat is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. (Quote by - Martin Horner)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (Quote by - James Allen)
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it! (Quote by - Mazzini)
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'Angelo)
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
I'm going to get through this; I'm going to be fine. The power to do it is all in my mind. (Quote by - Cindy Wagner)
We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. (Quote by - Max Depree)
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Be the change you want to see in the world. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. (Quote by - C.R. Lawton)
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. (Quote by - Henry W. Longfellow)
Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow. (Quote by - Les Brown)
In this world man must either be anvil or hammer. (Quote by - Henry W. Longfellow)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. (Quote by - Thomas Sprat)
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. (Quote by - Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it. (Quote by - Dr. Wayne Dyer)
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
People do not change with the times, they change the times. (Quote by - P.K. Shaw)
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls. (Quote by - Hitopadesav
No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something. (Quote by - Sean Gregory Derrick)
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves. (Quote by - Mark Victor Hansen)
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. (Quote by - David Lee Roth)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
You were always a better person inside. All you had to do was peel away the layers. (Quote by - Duane Alan Hahn)
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. (Quote by - Les Brown)
You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe. (Quote by - Shad Helmstetter)
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. (Quote by - Mike Murdock)
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Quote by - Juvenal)
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly (Quote by - Henri L. Bergson)
He who stops being better stops being good. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. (Quote by - Les Brown)
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. (Quote by - Cary Grant)
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. (Quote by - Sir William Jones)
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. (Quote by - Epictetus)
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
It only takes one person to change your life - you. (Quote by - Ruth Casey)
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
