Quotes about Self-improvement
For life is too short to be little.
- Dale Carnegie
There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.
- Dale Carnegie
If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
- Dale Carnegie
Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
- Paulo Coelho
If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less.
- Mandy Hale
No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.
- Louise Hay
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
- Wendell Berry
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
- William James
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
- William James
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Helen Keller