self-improvement Quotes

The test of any man lies in action.

Learn what you are and be such.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.