Quotes on Self Improvement

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.