Self-Improvement Quotes
That discipline which
corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart
with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful
knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself,
is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which
we can make of the goods of fortune. -Blair
You will find that the mere
resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people,
will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. -Ruskin
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was
yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Is it asked, how can the
laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer, that an earnest
purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns
fragments to golden account. A man who follows his calling with
industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always
have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how
fruitful of improvement a short season becomes, when eagerly seized and
faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the
most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour in
the day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject,
brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. -Channing
People never improve unless they
look to some standard or example higher or better than
themselves. -Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
"Know thyself," said the old
philosophy. "Improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time
is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we
must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can
carry into the eternal progress beyond. -Bulwer
People seldom improve, when
they have no other model but themselves to copy after. -Goldsmith
If what you did yesterday seems
big, you haven't done anything today. -Lou Holtz
Each year, one vicious habit
rooted out in time ought to make the worst man good. -Franklin
Without continuous personal
development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell
starts when the person you are meets the person you could have
been. -Eli Cohen
I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the
victory over self. -Aristotle
Before preparing to improve the
world, first look around your own home three times. -Chinese
Proverb
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself,
if only for a few hours daily. -Arthur Brisbane
He was always smoothing and
polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was
sharp. -Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets
you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept
oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting
game in the world--making the most of one's best. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
All of us, who are worth
anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or
expiating the mistakes of our youth. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be
clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and
career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own
self-development. -Brian Tracy
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of
ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our
today, to do our work with more force than ever before. -Stewart Johnson
What you become directly
influences what you get. -Jim Rohn
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in
my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. -Michel de
Montaigne
Whoever
will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every
virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as
much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and
flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the
natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to
this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too
short. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk
little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in
company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that
deserve it. -Sir William Temple (1628-1699)
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