Quotes about Self-improvement

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.