Quotes about Self-improvement

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Finish each day and be done with it. 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 serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.