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
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
"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
Each year, one vicious habit
rooted out in time ought to make the worst man good. -Franklin
I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the
victory over self. -Aristotle
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself,
if only for a few hours daily. -Arthur Brisbane
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
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be
clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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