Quotes about self-improvement

You can’t control other people’s behavior you can only ever control your own.

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.

Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren't & can't. You have to win they don't necessarily have to lose for you!

Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential we're operating way below capacity. And we'll continue as long as we are looking for someone to give us the key to the kingdom. We must realize that the kingdom is in us and we already have the key. It's as if we're waiting for permission to start fully living.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Your future is not fixed it's fluid in motion. Your world is very malleable like clay desiring to be something useful. Go ahead feel free to hammer your life into shape like a skilled Blacksmith.

It’s strange how we tend to underestimate the power of small steps and think that they are not at all useful or effectual instead we use them as a pretext to freeze. Remember every step counts- even the longest journey begins with the first step. So go ahead take those baby steps and you never know they may bring about the much needed change your life…

It’s not just others that you need to forgive learn to be kind and forgiving towards your own self.

People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.

Sometimes it's not about your opinion it's about what's right...and knowing the difference.

I learned that forgiveness isn't an instant thing it must be done on a regular basis otherwise anger would keep piling up and affect our personal vibration negatively.

Bad things bring out the real you the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort.

We are always learning we just have different teachers.

Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence it is your own responsibility.

Keep working on yourself eventually you will get to the point where you don't need anyone else's love to define you.

Conquer yourself the world is you!

People are not interested in truths they are interested in inventions.

Tomorrow is yesterday’s excuse for today now has no excuses.

This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all just one that suits each of us.

Where a woman's faith in herself ends so too does her joy.

To change the world takes time to change yourself takes courage.

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Be your sacred-self.

Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.

Even when someone hurts you, find the strength to forgive them, understand them, and let it go.

Life is spiritual warfare.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you.

I don't mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way – even when it clearly is not – is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others.

Hold fast to the word of God.

No matter how successful you are, you have to keep improving yourself. Otherwise, you will get stuck in what was once considered modern. Today, you can't solve iPad problems with typewriter knowledge and in the years to come, we shall look at the iPad and say how come we were so excited about that.

Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity.

If you want money, you must work to earn it.

That dull ache in the heart, those wistful eyes with unshed tears looking at the road waiting for the one who broke your heart to return, that sinking feeling that it’s over, the finality of the whole thing strikes you deep down within. Wake up, come to terms that there’s been a breakup and that it’s over. A breakup is no reason to breakdown, come on you are much stronger. Wipe those unshed tears, chin up, chest out, shoulders back, wear your most beautiful smile and let the world see that you a

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

Introspect.You know yourself more each day,Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too.

I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.

Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.

You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ....

Having the strength to pull yourself away from the toxicity and surrounding yourself with all the nourishing things you need to grow is a huge accomplishment. although not everybody has supporting family and friends in this new world of ours, but that doesn't mean you should give up, there is a whole world out there full of great people willing to help you succeed you just have to learn how to surround yourself with them and appreciate them, not use them for your own selfishness. And then my fri

Don’t let people who don’t care about you manipulate your mind feelings and emotions, or controls how you think about yourself. Never give that much power to someone else.

You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

Try something new out of your comfort zone. If you lose you will get an experienced, and If you win you will get an achievement.

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.

Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.

Your thinking, goals, positions, and detailed personality dimensions are forming by the influence of your environment.The brain reflects what he absorbed from the surrounding ambiance, exactly as the body reflects what he fed on.The independent will is the initiative to choose the life that suits us, not following the others of what they choose for us.

When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?

Try to be likeable but stay true to your self. There will be times when you have to do or say something at the expense of being popular. If you’ve built up enough goodwill, you’ll get away with it. People understand that difficult decisions have to be made and, if you’ve paid enough into your ‘likeability deposit’, they will hate the decision but not the person making it.There may be moments in your life when you have to choose between ‘being liked’ and what you really want to do. Imagine your f

We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

It was odd to look for forgiveness and acceptance in my own head at first, but now I understood – it was the only place to look.

Everything you seek is achieved from within not without. You know what is right and what is wrong for you because you feel it.

When you muster the courage to processes reality as it is instead of sweeping feelings or emotions under the rug, you become stronger.

There's enough of everything to go around for everybody but not without awareness and positive beliefs about abundance.

If you know why you are here, if you have a reason – a purpose, you know why you are born – you know why you are alive and you will feel alive. Purpose is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world to have.

All changes have their melancholy

Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.

You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.

The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.

Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.

Through out your life people will project many things onto you. The projections are not about you, they are about them. Most will actually have very little to do with who you actually are. Remember this instead of reacting.

Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.

Those who follow the flock, eat the shit, not the grass.

Remember, you don’t compete with anyone, you make them compete with you. You can control what you put on yourself; you can’t control what the other guy puts on you. So you focus only on the internal pressure that drives you. Run to it, embrace it, feel it, so no one else can throw more at you than you’ve already put on yourself.

You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.

If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually considered innate, to learned behavior that helps maintain and support male domination, they act as those these difference are not value laden or political but are rather inherent and mystical. In these books male inability and/or refusal to honestly express feelings is often talked about as a positive masculine virtue women should learn to accept rather than a learned habit of behavior that creates

We are spiritual beings - indestructible, immaterial and safe.

When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.

Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down.

You look furious,” Pritkin said, watching me.“I just—I can’t understand not fighting for your life— for what you want. Just giving up—”A corner of his mouth quirked. “No. You would not understand that. You never stop trying, do you?”“What else is there?”“Despair. Hopelessness. Anger. Depression.”“But those don’t get you anywhere.”He huffed out something that might have been a laugh, only it didn’t sound happy. “No. They don’t.

But as we let go of our repetitive stories and fixed ideas about ourselves--particularly deep-seated feelings of "I'm not okay"--the armor starts to fall apart, and we open into the spaciousness of our true nature, into who we really are beyond the transitory thoughts and emotions. We see that our armor is made up of nothing more than habits and fears, and we begin to feel that we can let those go.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

Be kind to your future self, and your future will be kind to you.

It is the confession, not the Priest, that gives us absolution

Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.

If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.