Self Improvement Quotes

507 Self Improvement quotes by 292 unique authors

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. — David Lee Roth
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again… — Albert Schweitzer
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To… — Henry David Thoreau
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. — Harry S. Truman
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. — Mark Twain
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water… — Nhat Hanh
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something… — C.S. Lewis
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes… — Paulo Coelho
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate… — Marilyn Monroe
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. — Bill Watterson

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