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SELF-IMPROVEMENT
*
“Ethical
religion can be real only to those who are engaged
in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving
upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without
limit.”
-- Felix
Adler
Hold
yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone
else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
*
we
cannot afford to settle for being just average; we
must learn as much as we can to be the best that we
can. The key word is education -- education with maximum
effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves
or anyone else.
-- Bill
Cosby
"You
cannot hope to build a better world without improving the
individuals. To that end each of us must work for his or
her 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
*
You're
not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying
to do the best you can every day.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
*
Try
not to become a man of success but rather try to become
a man of value.
-- Albert
Einstein
“We
have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human
responsibility.”
-- Albert
Einstein
*
"Unless
you try to do something beyond what you have already
mastered, you will never grow."
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Make
the most of yourself, for that is all there is of
you.”
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
*
Be
at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let every new year find you a better man.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
*
"As
human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being
able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake
ourselves." -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
“The
difference between what we do and what we are capable
of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's
problems”
-- Mohandas
K. 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." -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
There
is only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that’s your own self.
~ Aldous
Huxley
*
“When we do the best that we
can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our
life, or in the life of another.”
-- Helen
Keller
I
do not want to die until I have faithfully made the
most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed
in me until the last small twig has grown.
-- Kathe
Kollwitz
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can,
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end”
-- Abraham
Lincoln
*
It
is hardly possible to overrate the value, for the
improvement of human beings, of things which bring
them into contact with persons dissimilar to themselves
and with modes of thought and action unlike those
with which they are familiar... It is indispensable
to be perpetually comparing [one's] own notions and
customs with the experience and example of persons
in different circumstances... There is no nation which
does not need to borrow from others.
-- John
Stuart Mill
"Projection:
Blaming someone else rather than looking at your own
stuff. Putting your inferior shadow on someone else."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Projection:
Blaming someone else rather than looking at your own
stuff. Putting your inferior shadow on someone else."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Pain
hurts. Sometimes important things come from sitting
with your own pain."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Be
willing to bring bad feelings to the light of day.
Expose them for what they are. They are only feelings
after all."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
*
“If
you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be
first, be different, be just.”
-- Anita
Roddick
*
A
man can do only what he can do. But if he does that
each day he can sleep at night and do it again the
next day.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
*
I
tell you that as long as I can conceive something
better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving
to bring it into existence or clearing the way for
it.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
I have to keep trying to manifest actions and deeds
that reflect the real me, even if the world doesn't
yet see me the way I know I am inside, because I know
who I am.
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
I'll
keep on striving to be the me I am inside, even if the
world doesn't yet see and accept me for that person
I want to be on the outside.
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear. - Socrates
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
"I
know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable
ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
-- Henry
David Thoreau
*
What
you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
The
improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent
to which it was based on a change of consciousness,
that is, to the extent to which the law of violence
was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
*
I
believe that any man's life will be filled with constant
and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible
reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
-- Booker
T. Washington
*The kind of national goal we ought to be
thinking about is way beyond national product - it
is how do we as a nation help our children be the
best kinds of people they could possibly be?
-- Paul
Wellstone
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