Quotes on Self Improvement

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.