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Self Improvement Quotations |
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Mme. Du Deffand
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
B. R. Haydon
Change yourself and fortune will change with you.
Portugese Proverb
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.
Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg
In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant
Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Sir J. Stephen
Discontent is the source of all trouble,
but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!
Mazzini
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
It was the sacred rule among the Pythagoreans that they should every evening thrice run over the actions and affairs of the day.
Dr. L. Watts
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Sir William Jones
Remedy your deficiencies,
and your merits will take care of themselves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Marcus Aurelius
Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing.
Proverb
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.
Hitopadesa
Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Proverb
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry W. Longfellow
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