What is Self Improvement?

50 Self Improvement Quotes

1. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi 
2. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.” – Jim Valvano
3. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” - Mahatma Gandhi  
4. “The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” Theodore Rubin 
5. “God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr 
6. “When building a main mast, shipbuilders choose the tallest, strongest tree they can find. Then they cut away the surrounding trees, leaving their selection exposed to the elements so it becomes even stronger and more flexible. In life, your main mast is made up of your most cherished values, the ones that won’t fail you when the going gets rough. When your sails are set and the fierce winds of life begin to buffet you, your most cherished values remain strong yet resilient. They sustain and give you strength during difficult times.” Thomas L. Hardin 
7. “Don’t be hard like a rock, be soft like water. Ultimately the soft wins over the hard. Be like water, soft, flowing, at ease. The hardness inside will eventually be reduced to sand, and the rock will completely disappear.” Lao Tzu
8. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr 
9. “You’re never a loser until you quit trying.” – Mike Ditka 
10. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra 
11. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” – Satchel Paige 
12. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan 
13. “Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.” Mahatma Gandhi 
14. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford 
15.  Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
16. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
17. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
18. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. – Confucius 
19. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown
20. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
21. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
22. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. – Zig Ziglar
23. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
24. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
25. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
26. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg
27. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. – Denis Waitley
28. Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. – Unknown
29. Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything. – Unknown
30. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
31. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
32. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
33. You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. – Henry David Thoreau
34. Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
35. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson
36. Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
37. The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom
38. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
39. I feel the love of those who are not physically around me.
40. I refuse to give up because I haven’t tried all possible ways.
41. I kindly ask for help and guidance if I cannot see a better way.
42. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
43. I may not understand the good in this situation but it is there.
44. It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Self improvement is not the faith.
45. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
46. I choose to find hopeful and optimistic ways to look at this.
47. To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
48. Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a “must” and a “want.” 
49. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. 
50. It’s easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It’s easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.