Quotes about Self-improvement

At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on—how many such "from-now-ons" have there already been!—to begin with better intentions, but they are still stuck in the middle of their paganism.

The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.