Quotes about Self-improvement

For life is too short to be little.

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.

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.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

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.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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.

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.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.