#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.”

“Criticism polishes my mirror.”

“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.”

“I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”

“Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.”

“Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.”

“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”

“Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.”

“Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.”

“Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.”

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.”

“Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.”

“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

“It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

“When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.”

“... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.”

“Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.”

“Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.”

“If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.”

“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.”

“Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

“Every thought you have has an energy that will either strengthen or weaken you.”

“My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be”

“Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.”