Quotes about Self-improvement

I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we're just trying to improve every day. It's not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they're wrong. It's more about trying to do what's right for your own self.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.