self-improvement techniques Quotes

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.