Motivational Quotes

Self-improvement

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Self-improvement

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Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.

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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Roth, David Lee

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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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He who stops being better stops being good.

Cromwell, Oliver

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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Cousins, Norman

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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Swift, Jonathan

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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Dewey, John

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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Holtz, Lou

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Asimov, Isaac

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When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.

Arland, Gilbert

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement

Robbins, Anthony

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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Tracy, Brian

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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Tracy, Brian

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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The never-ending task of self improvement.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

Menace, Dennis the

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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

King, Florence

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No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Valvano, Jim

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Live to live and you will learn to live.

Proverb, Portuguese

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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Edwards, Tryon

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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.