Quotes about Self-improvement

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

I never make the same mistake twice. I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones. Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

Eh, hepimiz hata yapar?z tatl?m, bu yüzden art?k bunu geride b?rak. Hatalar?m?zdan piÅŸman olup ders almal?y?z ama asla onlar? kendimizle birlikte geleceÄŸe ta??mamal?y?z.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.