Self-improvement Quotes

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."

- Yoko Ono

"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

- Laurence Sterne

"Do not rely on others for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that."

- Stacey Charter

"I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person."

- Carrie Brownstein

"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to."

- Richard Branson

"Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to."

- Richard Branson

"Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses — not so you’ll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you’ll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away–because you’ve earned it."

- Jeff Haden

"Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of those pieces."

- Judith Viorst

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may."

- Buddha

"Let July be July by allowing yourself to trust: it’s okay if you cannot make sense of it all right now. What matters is that somehow, you found grace to breathing through. And now, you’ve made it to August where you’ll find: there is more to you. Let August be August by allowing yourself to trust: you do not have to be so hard on yourself if you cannot make sense of all that is changing. In the coming days, you will find mystery, and you will also find room to breathe and you might just find even in these unknowns: you are more prepared than you think. You are free to take the time you need to feel what you need to feel… including the good feelings. Don’t let them rush you. You are traveling at the pace you were meant to. You are still free to pursue peace right here in the in-betweens. Whatever happens this month, be gentle with yourself. Even here, there is still space for us to rise above the fear... propelled into motion by love. There is more to come. More love. More joy. More grace. More peace. Let this be the August you look back on and say: somehow, through it all, I learned to fall in love with the journey."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."

- Henry Rollins

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage as long as you edit brilliantly."

- C. J. Cherryh

"Remove shoulds from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now."

- Kelly Martin

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

- John Locke

"Discipline yourself, and others won't need to."

- John Wooden

"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."

- William Feather

"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do."

- Jeff Fisher

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

- Frank Herbert

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."

- Julie Andrews

"Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it."

- Brian Tracy

"The most powerful thing about a discipline is the discipline itself, not the outcome."

- Craig Groeschel

"At 30, life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

"Knowing safety is not enough. Practice it."

"30 is the age when you stop trying to change yourself and start trying to love yourself."

"Welcome to your 30s, where every day is a chance to be your best self."

"Your 30s are when you learn to love yourself unconditionally."

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