self-improvement Quotes

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.