People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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.
The never-ending task of self improvement.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.
What you become directly influences what you get.
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim — improve yourself.
When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge… and the longest life is too short.
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