SelfImprovement quotes

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.