Quotes about Self-improvement
She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action
- George Eliot
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
- Brian Tracy
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- St. Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- St. Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
- St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- St. Augustine
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
- Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Francis de Sales
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
- Teresa of Avila
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense
- Samuel Johnson
Clear your mind of can't.
- Samuel Johnson
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
- Dick Cheney