Quotes about Self-improvement
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
- Henry Ford
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Dr. Michael Kelley said, "You must be willing to do the things today that others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow that others won't have." People who are HUNGRY don't let life define them—they define themselves!
- Les Brown
You may not accomplish every goal you set—no one does—but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important.
- Les Brown
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
- Oscar Wilde
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance
- Zig Ziglar
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
- Edmund Burke
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
- Vernon Howard