3,535 Quotes About Self-improvement

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. Yogi Raman was the first person to explain to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it.

Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way – even when it clearly is not – is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

The future depends on what choices we make....