Quotations similar to SELF-IMPROVEMENT - CHANGE, KNOWLEDGE
Also see SELF-IMPROVEMENT AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. - Unknown
Always make it a practice to be better at something when you go to bed than you were when you woke up. - Che Garman
As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as being able to remake ourselves. - Gandhi
Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement. - Anthony J D’Angelo
Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind. - Zig Ziglar
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. - Glenda Cloud
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. - Lowell Thomas
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. - Thomas J Watson
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. - Ralph Marston
Don't settle for second best, ever. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted. - Tony Clark
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. - Jim Rohn
Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. - Tony Robbins
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person. - Leo Tolstoy
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. - William James
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Goethe
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. - Ken Venturi
If something is going to enrich your life or improve your relationships with people, isn’t it important enough to start doing it NOW? - Dennis Mannering
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. - Bo Bennett
If you are not consciously expanding your comfort zone, it will shrink. - Che Garman
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be different, be just. - Anita Roddick
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. - Jim Rohn
If you only do things you can do perfectly, you stop learning new skills, stop taking chances, and stop having fun. - Ann McGee-Cooper
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
If you're starting a new slate, don't forget to erase what's already there. - Unknown
Improvement always begins with 'I'. - Wisemen
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld
It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it. - Jim Rohn
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. - Paulo Coelho
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you're going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. - Marilyn Grey
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. - James Allen
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain. - Proverb
Nobody’s perfect, but all of us can be better than we are. - Jackie Stewart
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves, their past accomplishments and future potential. - Brian Tracy
Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Johann Friedrich von Schiller
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E Joseph Cossman
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. - Tryon Edwards
Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. - Les Brown
Poor people have big TVs... Rich people have a big library. - Jim Rohn
Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. - Vince Lombardi
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. - Maxwell Maltz
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. - Unknown
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. - Chris Eubank
The book you don't read won't help. - Jim Rohn
The first step towards improving your life is to take the first step. - Che Garman
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin
The man who has done less than his best has done nothing. - Charles Schwab
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can’t hope for a fairer match. - Todd Ruthman
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. - Harold Taylor
There is always a better way to do anything. - Thomas Edison
There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. - Michael F Staley
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. - Henry Ford
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement. - Tom Peters
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. - Andrew Carnegie
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley
This became a credo of mine... attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette Davis
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato
To have more than you've got, become more than you are. - Jim Rohn
To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn - Wesley Woo
Unless you try and do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. - C R Lawton
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. - Richard G Scott
We fritter our lives away on 10% improvements whilst in our hearts we yearn to be 1000 times better. - Steve Unwin
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. - Tom Hopkins
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. - Les Brown
You cannot fix what you will not face. - James Baldwin
You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. - Scott Sorrell
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. - Jim Rohn
