Self Improvement Quotes

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

~ Stephen R. Covey

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

~ Amit Ray

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

~ Charles Reznikoff

As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size

~ Sola Kosoko

Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-realization is largely a matter of achieving a person’s formative personality definition. People whom lack self-realization oftentimes fail to integrate their desired personality traits into all phases of their life including social life, family life, and work life. In order to achieve satisfaction with oneself, a person must know what they wish for, know how to go about achieving their goals, be capable of recognizing where they now stand, and understand how they must change in order to attain their ultimate visage.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person is not born as a finished product; we create ourselves every day. Resembling reality, no person is a fixed and unchangeable entity. Each of us is in the process of becoming. A person’s perspective on their life experiences depends upon reviewing and integrating an emotional gamut of reconciling values with applied effort.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Silence is a beautiful story.

~ Kulpreet Yadav

How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?

~ Eileen Cook

A person can transfigure the disquiet of solitude in a positive or negative manner. Periods of enforced solitude can cause a person to develop eccentricities of conduct and character, parley with a number of mental aberrations, partake in self-destructive diversions, or use their time productively to contemplate worldly issues and diligently work on self-improvement.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my natural boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?

~ Eileen Cook

Self-questioning is bound to arise at the outset of any worthy quest attempting to gain self-knowledge, and this disconcerting sense of uneasiness will continue to surface akin to a petulant sea serpent until a person undertaking a vision quest either discovers a safe haven or perceptively changes the trajectory of their destructive life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version.

~ Mahmoud Own

Pay no attention to the smartest, the prettiest, the richest, the most refined person you know. Welcome to your heart only the one who has kindness in his soul. All the rest of them, if they are not kind people in addition to what they are, at some point will harm you, putting their personal interest above all, crushing any part of your soul it does not suit them for you to have, turning any serenity of yours into a cage full of destructive storms.

~ Michalopoulos Angelos

Success does not often arrive by miracle or magic but through perseverance and practice.

~ Rebecca Brockway

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

~ Napoleon Hill

We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person’s supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

~ Nathaniel Branden

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

~ George Leonard

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

~ George Leonard

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel, think and want.

~ Deborah Day

I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

It`s not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it`s your sadness that does it.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other.

~ Tim Hollingworth

I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

As long as you create, you are being created.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Emotions and feelings don't come out of the blue they're always triggered by memories good or bad. Males and females must process both.

~ Mayra Mejia

Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.

~ Mayra Mejia

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness.

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe