Quotes about Self-improvement

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

And if our naïve self-confidence is a little undermined in the process, is that altogether such a loss? Is there not cause to welcome it as a maturing and character-building experience?

Don't worry if those around you aren't doing their best. Just worry about how to make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Chapter 21 teaches us to be less toxic toward ourselves.

What if your husband's faults are God's tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God's plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?

Christianity does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; it calls us to become the right person.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.