Improving Yourself Quotes

• If you won't improve yourself, who will?

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Ifs

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• Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Jobs, Knowing

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, People, Giving

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• Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Abuse, Balance

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  There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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• You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.

  Leon Brown

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Used

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Excellence

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Past, Optimism

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

  Christian D. Larson

  Health, Optimistic, Optimism

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• You can go as far as your mind lets you.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• You must learn to forgive yourself as easily as you forgive others. And then take a further step and use all that energy that you used in condemning yourself for improving yourself. After that I really started to get somewhere - because there's only one person you can change and that's yourself. After you have changed yourself, you might be able to inspire others to look for change.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspire, Forgiving, Energy

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mistake, Optimistic, Past

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

  Christian D. Larson

  Friends, Optimism, Feels

  "Your Forces and How to Use Them".

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• Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Optimism

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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