These self improvement quotes will inspire you. The process of making yourself a better or more knowledgeable person can be called self-improvement or the improvement of one’s knowledge, status, or character by one’s own efforts.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging self improvement quotes, self improvement sayings, and self improvement proverbs.
Best Self Improvement Quotes
- “A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.” ~ Will Rogers
- “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ~ Confucius
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” ~ Washington Irving
- “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ~ Winston Churchill , Self improvement quotes change
- “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” ~ Max De Pree
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“Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that’s enough.” ~ David A. Bednar , Self improvement quotes about bettering yourself
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“We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” ~ Frank A. Clark
- “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” ~ George Eliot
- “If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.” ~ Joel Osteen
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“Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner
- “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.” ~ Les Brown
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” ~ Cary Grant
- “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” ~ Lord Byron
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” ~ Lawrence Clark Powell
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“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Through discipline comes freedom.” ~ Aristotle
- “You’ll see it when you believe it.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.” ~ James Allen
- “Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- “Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
- “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner
- “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
- “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” ~ Epictetus
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
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“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.” ~ Chris Hardwick
- “What you become directly influences what you get.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
- “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” ~ Aristotle
- “Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.” ~ Marion LeRoy Burton
- “The never-ending task of self improvement.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you don’t feel you have something to prove every day, you’ll never improve” ~ Billy Donovan
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“Being good enough never is.” ~ Debbi Fields
- “To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.” ~ Akhenaton
- “Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” ~ Norman Cousins
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“If you only know something one way, then you don’t really know it.” ~ Michael Arndt
- “The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.” ~ Charles Lindbergh
- “So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.” ~ Steve Ballmer
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
