Quotes about Self-improvement

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.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.