self-improvement Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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

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

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.

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.