30 Self Improvement Quotes – Inspirational Self Growth Sayings

30 Self Improvement Quotes

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
~Mortimer Adler~

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“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our mind growled
like our stomach does when it is hungry?”
~Zig Ziglar~

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“An individual who is active in higher learning
soon becomes an individual active in higher earning.”
~Michael Gulliver~

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“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.”
~Harriet Goldhor Lerner~

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“Excellence is not a destination;
it is a continuous journey that never ends.”
~Brian Tracy”

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“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward
toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again;
fear must be overcome again and again.”
~Abraham Maslow~

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“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
~George Eliot~

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“Formal education will make you a living.
Self education will make you a fortune.”
~Jim Rohn~

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the
first victory they won was over themselves …
self-discipline with all of them came first.”
~Harry S. Truman~

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“It only takes one person to change your life – you.”
~Ruth Casey~

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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
~Marcus Aurelius~

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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for
you will never go any higher than you think.”
~Benjamin Disraeli~

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“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give
a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self;
to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.”
~Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg~

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“The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.”
~Plutarch~

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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can
be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
~Aldous Huxley~

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“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.
Our life is the creation of our mind.”
~Buddha~

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“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection.
Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
~Michael J. Fox~

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“Unless you try to do something beyond what
you have mastered, you will never grow.”
~C.R. Lawton~

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“We are what we repeatedly do.”
~Aristotle~

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“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~

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“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.”
~Thomas Sprat~

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“Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue,
which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.”
~Marcus Aurelius~

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“How ridiculous not to flee from one’s own wickedness, which
is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another’s which is not.”
~Marcus Aurelius~

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“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door
and the whole world will be clean.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

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“The things which hurt, instruct.”
~Benjamin Franklin~

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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your
neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
~Benjamin Franklin~

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“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~

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“Anticipate meeting obstacles, but also anticipate overcoming them.”
~Emmanuel Segui~

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“Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also
of all progress, in individuals and nations.”
~Berthold Auerbach~

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“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
~Sir James M. Barrie~