Self Improvement famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.
-- Anne Robinson -
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...
-- Bob Teague -
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
-- Brian Tracy -
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
-- Cary Grant -
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
-- Gary Zukav -
Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
-- Gary Zukav -
Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
-- Harriet Lerner -
Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.
-- Jackie Stewart -
People can cry much easier than they can change.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.
-- Jillian Michaels -
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.
-- Les Brown -
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
-- Les Dawson -
Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.
-- Lucy Hale -
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
-- Marion LeRoy Burton -
It occurred to me that when a person chooses certain behaviors, they have complete, 100% control over their choices. But once the behavior is chosen, therein lies the extent of the effects of that choice. One has 0% control over what happens to them or to their body as a result of that choice. You can choose how you respond to the consequences, but control is relinquished. Choose carefully!
-- Mary L. Page -
All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
-- Michael Arndt -
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
-- Michael Arndt -
Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
-- Michael Arndt -
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
-- Michael Arndt -
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
-- Michael Arndt -
Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
-- Michael Arndt -
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
-- Michael Arndt -
The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
-- Michael Arndt -
We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
-- Michael Arndt -
Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
-- Michael Arndt -
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
-- Michael J. Gelb -
Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you
-- Myles Munroe -
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
-- Og Mandino -
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.
-- Patricia Buckley -
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
-- Richard G. Scott -
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
-- Robert C. Solomon -
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.
-- Robert Holden -
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
-- Russell M. Nelson -
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
-- T. H. White -
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
-- Thomas Merton -
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
-- Thomas Sowell -
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
-- Thomas Sprat -
You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
-- Wayne Dyer -
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
-- Wayne Dyer -
You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
-- Wayne Dyer -
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
-- Wayne Dyer -
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
-- William J. Clinton -
Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?
-- Zig Ziglar -
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
-- Barry Neil Kaufman -
All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.
-- Barry Neil Kaufman -
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.
-- Mike Dooley -
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
-- Thomas Steinbeck -
The size of your promise defines the size of your life.
-- Roger J. Hamilton -
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
-- William Jones
