self-improvement Quotes

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.