“Live to live and you will learn to live.”
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
“He who stops being better stops being good.”
“What you become directly influences what you get.”
“The best thing you can do is get good at being you.”
“Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement”
“The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.”
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
“Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.”
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
“When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.”
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”
“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
“I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.”
“All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature, is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”
“No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.”
“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.”
“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.”
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.”
“The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”