Quotes about Self-improvement

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhat made useful to him. ...Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults...