Quotes about Self-improvement
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
- Epictetus
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
- Ernest Hemingway
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
- John Ortberg
All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When
- Jen Sincero
Figure out which affirmations you need to hear the most and repeat them all day long in your head, in the car, while you're walking down the street pretending to be on the phone, under your breathe in line at the DMV. Write them on Post-it notes and stick them around your house, on your mirrors, in your refrigerator, in your car. Write down your favorite affirmations ten times every morning and ten times every night before you go to bed and say them out loud. Here
- Jen Sincero
It was about no longer being the kind of person who takes what she can get, and finally becoming the kind of person who creates exactly what she wants.
- Jen Sincero
You don't have to hit rock bottom to make a change. You can just decide.
- Jen Sincero
I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.
- Jen Sincero
You aren't a better person for feeling guilty or bad about yourself, just a sadder one.
- Jen Sincero
The key here is to be specific and consistent—figure out what makes you feel the most mighty and make a habit of doing those things.
- Jen Sincero
Be grateful for all you are and all that you're becoming.
- Jen Sincero