Self Improvement Quotes

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes" "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action" "A good half of the art of living is resilience." "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him" "All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise" "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "We are natural learners. Learning is our default state." "The beginning is always today" "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear" "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not." "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." "The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years" "Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future" "The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself"