Self-improvement Quotes

"Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to ultimately be at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be."

- Abraham Maslow

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

- Dr. Harriet Braiker

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"We are primarily responsible for our anger, but we believe very naively that if we can say something or do something to punish the other person, we will suffer less. This kind of belief should be uprooted. Because whatever you do or say in a state of anger will only cause more damage in the relationship. Instead, we should try not to do anything or say anything when we are angry."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see."

- Al-Ghazzali

"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

- Seneca

"Patience is the direct antithesis of anger."

- Allan Lokos

"When you are angry, be still and do not speak."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs."

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?"

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Man, by his very nature and of his own accord, strives toward self-realization, and that his set of values evolves from such striving. Apparently he cannot, for example, develop his full human potentialities unless he is truthful to himself; unless he is active and productive; unless he relates himself to others in the spirit of mutuality. Apparently he cannot grow if he indulges in a "dark idolatry of self" and consistently attributes all his own shortcomings to the deficiencies of others. He can grow, in the true sense, only if he assumes responsibility for himself."

- Karen Horney

"If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual."

- Carl Rogers

"We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed."

- Carl Rogers

"Your most important investment is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

""Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.""

- Frank Ocean

"Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself."

- Roger Staubach

"Spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people."

- The Breakfast Club

"You shouldn't want to be better than everybody else; you should want to be better than you ever thought you could be."

"Retire from your job, but never retire your mind."

"Be the best version of yourself"

"Self discipline begins with mastery"

"Perfectionism stalls progress"

"Polish your weaknesses"

"You did the best you could at the time."

"Saturday is not just the end of the week; it's the beginning of a two-day adventure in self-improvement."

"Don’t self sabotage your happiness with an undisciplined mind."

""You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.""