Quotes about Self-improvement
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
- Oprah Winfrey
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
- St. Augustine
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
- Ronald Reagan
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
- CS Lewis
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Samuel Johnson
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
- Thomas a Kempis
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
- Charles Spurgeon
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson