Self Improvement Quotes

“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.”

“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicatedTo closeness and the bettering of my mind.”

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”

“He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.”

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.”

“Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.”

“Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.”

“Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.”

“Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.”

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

“[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.”

“I am amazed at the seeker of purityWhen time for polishing comesComplaints of harsh treatmentLove is a lawsuitWithout evidence, you will not winMy son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rugBut against the dust inside the rugMy son, that harsh treatmentIs not intended against youBut against the ill qualities inside you”

“Our chief want in life, is,someone who shall make us do what we can.This is the service of a friend.With him we are easily great.”

“Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.”

“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”