Quotes about Self-improvement

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such

Tension, striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal are positive; trying to close the gap between what one is and what one should become.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you.