Self Improvement Quotes

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

~ Zig Ziglar

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.

~ Steve Goodier

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

~ C.s. Lewis

Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.

~ William Shakespeare

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

~ Kamal Ravikant

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

~ Judith Mcnaught

No one can save me except myself.

~ Susane Colasanti

I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the you that is behind the reality of yourself.

~ Lionel Suggs

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

~ Laura Joh Rowland

In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.

~ A.c. Ping

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

~ Lou Ferrigno

Work on your character, let life fall into place.

~ Sonia Rumzi

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

~ Richard Rohr

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

~ Linda Kaplan Thaler

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.

~ Steven Farmer

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

~ Malcolm Forbes

We must become what we wish to teach.

~ Nathaniel Branden

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.

~ Toba Beta

Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.

~ Lynne Truss

This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are, a constant striving (as those people say who gain their bread by saying it) only adds to this unhappiness in the end--that end that comes to our youth and hope.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?

~ Annie Dillard

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!

~ James A. Murphy

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. NEW MAKES US GROW

~ Rossana Condoleo

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest is. - Rossana Condoleo

~ Rossana Condoleo

Don't stand in traffic and complain about all the cars.

~ Andreas Codispoti

She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

~ Brian Tracy

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.

~ François Fénelon

Relying on people for happiness is the worst mistake you can ever make.

~ Bunny Naidu

Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say nothing and do whatever the hell I want.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say far too much and do whatever the hell I want.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

~ Brittany Burgunder

Your life is yours, not theirs. Your opinion of yourself, should also be yours, and not theirs. Sometimes, people can be so cruel and heartless. It can be hard to not be affected by it. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming. It can seem like the whole world is against us. In those times, it is crucial to remember that this is our life to live. No one but us can dictate how we should feel about things or even ourselves. Our opinion of ourselves only belongs to us, and no one else. No one can step into your shoes and live your life for you. By the same token, no one can tell you how you should feel. Be kind to yourself, be loving and compassionate. You are the one who is living with you. Work to make the relationship you have with yourself the best you can make it. It takes conscious, active effort, but it's worth it. You're worth it.

~ Akiroq Brost

Your most important fights will be the ones you knew that you couldn't win but you fought as hard as you could.

~ Brent M. Jones