Quotes on
Self Improvement
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
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
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
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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