Self Quotes

• “You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ” — John Ruskin
• "What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. ” — Immanuel Kant
• "What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. ” — Thomas Sprat
• "I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship. ” — Louisa May Alcott
• "People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ” — Oliver Goldsmith
• "Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. ” — Henry W. Longfellow
• "Change yourself and fortune will change with you. ” — Portuguese Proverb
• “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ” — Epictetus
• “Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ” — Walter Anderson
• “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.” — Robert M. Pirsig
• “True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. ” — Hugh Blair
• "I believe that true identity is found in creative activity springing from within. It is found when one loses oneself. ” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• “Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. ” — John Stuart Mill
• "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ” — Thomas Carlyle
• "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ” — Socrates
• "What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. ” — Saint Augustine
• "Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls. ” — Hitopadesa
• “Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ” — Robert F Kennedy
• "Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. ” — Epictetus
• "There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ” — Hindu Proverb
• “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ” — Marie Curie
• "The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. ” — Gerard Groote
• “In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ” — Rene Descartes
• “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ” — E.B. White
• "A scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil beats the best memory. ” —  Michael Wardinski