Quotes about Self-improvement

Psychologist and New York Times best-selling author Phil McGraw states, "I always say that the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You've got to be your own best friend first." How can you be "best friends" with someone you don't know or don't like? You can't. That's why it's so important to find out who you are and work to become someone you like and respect.

We should work on changing ourselves before trying to improve others. A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

You need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now.

Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

You can't help people become winners unless they want to win. Champions become champions from within, not from without.

The problem is that most of us have uphill dreams but downhill habits.

Change begins on the inside.

You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level. It just doesn't happen.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.