Self-improvement Quotes

"My smile is like I won a contest, and to hide that would be so dishonest; and it's fine to fake it 'til you make it, 'til you do, 'til it's true"

- Taylor Swift

""Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.""

- Jim Rohn

""It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.""

- Edmund Hillary

"My advice: Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you put your hands on in the world."

- Meryl Streep

"I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be."

- David Tennant

"Be a good person. The best person you can be. That's what matters."

- Kane Brown

"I want to be a good person. I don't want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness."

- Mike Yaconelli

"Until you're the best at something, you've always got to work on everything."

- Luka Doncic

"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."

- Ina May Gaskin

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life"

- Steve Jobs

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way"

- Napoleon Hill

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

- Aristotle

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do."

- Brené Brown

"Surviving breast cancer redefined who and how I am, although I’m not sure I’d recommend it. Until then, I’d spent a lifetime being a caretaker for everyone around me. From then, I started to put myself first. I had voices at the back of my head telling me whatever I did wasn’t good enough. Now, finally, I’ve silenced them."

- Sheryl Crow

"The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body."

- Sam Smith

"Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected."

- Christine Jorgensen

"You don't have to be better than everybody else, you just have to be better than you ever thought you could be."

- Ken Venturi

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."

- Buddha

"With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone."

- Buddha

"He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana."

- Buddha

"If a man’s thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe."

- Buddha

"For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother."

- Buddha

"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves."

- Buddha

"You are allowed to be a masterpiece and a work-in-progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"Recovery is a verb, not a noun. You have to be an active participant to improve continuously."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself, and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive."

- Brittany Burgunder

"us if we don’t surrender ourselves to the NA Program."

- Narcotics Anonymous

"Be the best version of you"

"It's not about being the best. It's about being better than you were yesterday."