Quotes about Self-improvement

As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with yourself. It takes time to create habits, and you may not succeed every day. If you realize you have failed, don't waste time being discouraged; just pick up where you left off and begin again. Be kind to yourself, because beating yourself up for every mistake is another bad habit that needs to be broken.

Father, I am asking that you change __________ if they truly need to change. If they don't, then change my heart and let me see my own error in thinking they do. I also ask that you change me in any way I need to change. Amen!

Say something that will help you, not something that will hinder you. Say, "I can do this with God's help.

Lord, if Hezekiah could learn to lean upon and be confident in You, I know that it's also possible for me. Enable me to focus on developing and maximizing my strengths rather than concentrating on my weaknesses. Amen.

One of the ingredients of forming good habits and breaking bad ones is focusing on what you want to do and not on what you want to stop doing.

Everyone can be a 10 at something, but our problem is that we often work so hard on trying to overcome our weakness that we never develop our strengths.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.