Quotes about Self-improvement

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

So how does one become a person whom other people want to be around? Let me make a suggestion. Ask yourself this question every day: 'What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.