Quotes about Self-improvement

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

You don't have any weaknesses?' 'I haven't found any.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

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

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.