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50 Best Self Improvement Quotes

List Of 50 Best Self Improvement Quotes:

#1 Don Miguel Ruiz

“If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?”

#2 Stephen Richards

“Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.”

#3 Richard G. Scott

“We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”

#4 Stephen Richards

“You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.”

#5 Idowu Koyenikan

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”

#6 James Allen

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”

#7 Steven Wright

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

#8 Gordon B. Hinckley

“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”

#9 Dale Carnegie

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

#10 Michael Jordan

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

#11 Aldous Huxley

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

#12 Jim Rohn

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

#13 Mandy Hale

“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”

#14 Carl R. Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

#15 Paul Newman

“You only grow when you are alone.”

#16 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”

#17 Confucius

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

#18 Shannon L. Alder

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”

#19 Jim Rohn

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

#20 Madonna

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

#21 Lionel Suggs

“I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don’t even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the “you” that is behind the reality of yourself.”

#22 Susane Colasanti

“No one can save me except myself.”

#23 Judith McNaught

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”

#24 Suzy Kassem

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

#25 Albert Einstein

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

#26 Solange Nicole

“To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.”

#27 Kamal Ravikant

“Decide what your truth is. Then live it.”

#28 Lolly Daskal

“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.”

#29 William Faulkner

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

#30 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.”

#31 C.S. Lewis

“The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.”

#32 Marilyn Suttle

“Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.”

#33 Mahatma Gandhi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”

#34 C.S. Lewis

“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.”

#35 George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

#36 Spencer Johnson

“If you do not change, you can become extinct!”

#37 Nathaniel Branden

“We must become what we wish to teach.”

#38 Alok Mishra

“Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren’t & can’t. You have to win; they don’t necessarily have to lose for you!”

#39 Swami Vivekananda

“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”

#40 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

#41 Kamal Ravikant

“The things I carry are my thoughts. That’s it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.”

#42 Nina George

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”

#43 Sanhita Baruah

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”

#44 Pele

“Everything is practice.”

#45 Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

#46 Lucille Ball

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

#47 Maxwell Maltz

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

#48 Kamal Ravikant

“I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And you your life will be grand.”

#49 Confucius

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”

#50 Deborah Day

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”