self-improvement Quotes

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.