Self-improvement Quotes

"You’ve gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life."

- Steve Carlton

"You either get better or you get worse. Those are the only two options."

- Max Scherzer

"As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames."

- Chaka Khan

"Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves."

- Kieren Perkins

"Every single day, I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player."

- Mia Hamm

"Being highly sensitive is both a gift and a responsibility. Learning to thrive as a highly sensitive soul presents challenges. If you’re sensitive, you have likely accumulated years of training in trying to overcome the trait because you don’t ‘fit in’ with society. And yet being highly sensitive is a vital part of you. A first step toward thriving as a sensitive soul is to understand and accept your trait. Hear this now: There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. You are just different. As one of my clients says, being highly sensitive is both a gift and a responsibility."

- Jenna Avery

"High sensitivity is not a disease or a disorder. It’s not something that needs to be overcome or fixed."

- Jenn Granneman

"Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up."

- Buddha

"The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self."

- Dalai Lama

"I wish I would have known this as a young writer: always think your writing sucks. If you are really committed to being an author, this mainframe will do one thing—always make you strive to be better."

- Jason Offut

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."

- Chuck Norris

"The first step to loving who you are is to accept who you are, including the parts you might not be proud of. Embrace your journey and believe in your potential."

- Jasmine Star

"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing we can do better than seeking to become still better than we are."

- Socrates

"One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things."

- John Burroughs

"My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds."

- Nia Vardalos

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success means having the courage, the determination and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."

- George Sheehan

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

- C.G. Jung

"There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I realized that when I allowed myself to be free again, I started to shine on the inside and outside."

- Tabitha Brown

"Be true to your heart... put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through."

- Jamie Brewer

"I can't fuck it up if I don't do it in the first place."

- froggojumper

"Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"A true friend accepts who you are but also helps you become who you should be."

"My New Year’s resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year’s resolutions."

- Anonymous

"New Year, new vibes, same me—but better! #Hello2025"

"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself."

- Anonymous

"No one is perfect—that’s why pencils have erasers."