Quotes about Self-improvement

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

We think, How much better life would be if a certain situation or a relationship were different! Meanwhile, God says that what needs change most is us! He does not just work to fix situations and relationships; he is intent on rescuing us from ourselves. We are the focus of his loving, lifelong work of change.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

Say to yourself over and over: "My peace of mind, my happiness, my health, and perhaps even my income will, in the long run, depend largely on applying the old, obvious, and eternal truths taught in this book.

For life is too short to be little.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less.