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Self Improvement Quotes

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

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.

When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

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.

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?