Self-improvement Quotes

"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."

- Elbert Hubbard

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

- Plato

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"It is better to conquer self than to win a thousand battles."

- Buddha

"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Discipline: The root of all good qualities. The driver of daily execution. The core principle that overcomes laziness and lethargy and excuses. Discipline defeats the infinite excuses that say: Not today, not now, I need a rest, I will do it tomorrow."

- Jocko Willink

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it."

- Mike Tyson

"Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?"

- Carol Dweck

"Learning to do the things you need to do, regardless of how you feel, is a core discipline for success."

- Brian P. Moran

"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."

- Roy T. Bennett

"There is no such thing as being the perfect parent. So just be a real one."

- Sue Atkins

"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Some days, doing ‘ the best we can ’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect — on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else."

- Fred Rogers

"Act the way that you want to feel."

- Gretchen Rubin

"You know, you wreck everything you touch. Why not try and make something for a change?"

- Lilo

"Only the disciplined ones in life are free."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"Running teaches us that we are capable of so much more than we ever imagined."

- Kara Goucher

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life."

- Brian Tracy

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullsh*t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately."

- Holly Mosier

"Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed."

- William James

"Have such deep confidence and love for yourself. You were fine before them and you’ll be fine with anyone after. If you did everything you could, and they still let you down, failed you and hurt you, that means they lost more than you. You learned your lesson, now raise your boundaries and move on No contact. It’s utterly difficult, but my father always told me “What the eyes don’t see, the heart does not feel.” Time heals, yes you’ll still think of them but that ache will soon pass, focus on you, don’t let that kid inside you down."

- summerrtime

"you can only control what you do, you have to be the best for yourself"

- Ok-Somewhere-1445

"It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place."

- Angelina Jolie

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on."

- Tupac Shakur

"June teaches us the art of patience, as we eagerly await the butterflies that will grace the flowers."

- Martha Hall Kelly

"The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things flow naturally."

"You are far too smart to be the only things standing in your way."

"May we all do better in 2025."

"खुद की तरक्की में इतना वक़्त लगा दो, कि किसी दूसरे की बुराई करने का वक़्त न मिले।"