self-improvement Quotes

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.