Quotes on Self-Improvement
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Cary Grant

Thoughts become words. Words become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become character. And character becomes your destiny.

Unknown

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Theodore Martin

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly

Henri L. Bergson

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Max Depree

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Sir James M. Barrie

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Alan Keightley

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Les Brown

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do, there is nothing you cannot have.

God from Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Mike Murdock

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Anthony Robbins

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

John Churton Collins

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Michael J. Gelb

If you don't program yourself, life will program you!

Les Brown

You were always a better person inside. All you had to do was peel away the layers.

Duane Alan Hahn

Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.

God from Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.

God Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch

We are what we repeatedly do.

Aristotle

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Les Brown

You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Shad Helmstetter

People do not change with the times, they change the times.

P.K. Shaw

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sidney Madwed

We all got problems. But there's a great book out called Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. Did you see that? That book says the statute of limitations has expired on all childhood traumas. Get your stuff together and get on with your life, man. Stop whinin' about what's wrong, because everybody's had a rough time, in one way or another.

Quincy Jones from a men.style.com interview

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Anthony Robbins (adapted)

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.

Goldsmith

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly

Henri L. Bergson

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Alexis Carrel

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

So-called negative feedback is often love in disguise.

Duane Alan Hahn

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