Self-improvement Quotes

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The pain of self-discipline will never be as great as the pain of regret."

- Sarah Bombell

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first."

- Harry S. Truman

"Freedom is born of self-discipline. The undisciplined man is a slave to his own weaknesses."

- Alan Valentine

"Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back."

- W.K. Hope

"If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."

- William Feather

"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."

- Edmund Spenser

"Discipline is the mark of intelligent living."

- Sathya Sai Baba

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing and a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Hunting is about embracing the challenge, accepting failure, and learning from it to become a better hunter and a better person."

- Remi Warren

"I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day."

- Tim Tebow

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."

- Franz Kafka

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

- Lao Tzu

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."

- Norman Vincent Peale

""Perfectionism is a lost cause. Focus your energy on being the best you can be.""

- Domonique Bertolucci

""Coaching helps you to take responsibility for your life, let go of what others think and become your true self.""

- Emma-Louise Elsey

""Simply put, Coaching is where you work with someone to connect with yourself, redesign your environment and your life, and then take action to implement it!""

- Emma-Louise Elsey

"Failure doesn’t define you; it refines you."

- Noelle LeBlanc

"When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits– anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving."

- Kim McMillen

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

- Marcus Aurelius

""The most important investment you can make is in yourself.""

- Warren Buffett

"Don’t dance around the perimeter of the person you want to be. Dive deeply and fully into it."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"Nobody is perfect, so stop trying to be perfect."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed."

- Travis Bradberry

"I’ve learned so much about myself in this last year, and I’ve been right all along, you know. I really am exceptional."

- Rebecca's Mum

"Self-discipline is that mental state of commitment, which gets you performing an activity regardless of your feelings."

- Unknown

"Discipline yourself to do the things you love to do when you don’t feel like doing them."

- Unknown

"Don’t try to be perfect. Just try to be better than you were yesterday."

- Unknown

"Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken."

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