Quotes about Self-improvement
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
— Wendell Berry
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
— William James
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
— William James
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
— Henry Ford
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
— Henry Ward Beecher