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
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
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
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
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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