Quotes about Self-improvement
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
— Andrew Carnegie
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
— Samuel Johnson
The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.
— John C. Wright
We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?
— John Calvin
Our only purpose in life is growth.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is a great thing to know your vices.
— Cicero
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
— Benjamin Disraeli
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
— Dale Carnegie
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
— Henry David Thoreau
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
— Brian Tracy
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
— Samuel Beckett