self-improvement Quotes

The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

You can't go backward in life.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Power is competence.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.