Quotes about Self-improvement

I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we've come to label as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. "Nobody taught me how to take care of myself," a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. "I didn't have enough money to go to therapy, but I had enough to buy a book.

Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.

On our worst days, we still look for something we've done toward recovery. Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.

God, help me face and solve my problems today. Help me do my part and let the rest go. I can learn to be a problem-solver

We can evaluate our behavior. We can make decisions about what we need and want. We can figure out what our problems are and what we need to do to solve them.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

God desires to change us from the inside out—renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

The "do-it-yourself" rage is spreading everywhere, and people are being told that to be happy all they have to do is think "happy thoughts." Such thoughts might cheer us, but they will never change us.

One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less.

Be honest about your weaknesses and ask God to help you overcome them so you can serve Christ more effectively.