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Self Improvement Quotes

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
Confucius
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."
Confucius
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Confucius
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
Confucius
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
Confucius
"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
Confucius
"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."
Confucius
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Rumi
"Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes."
Rumi
"Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
Rumi
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Rumi
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi
"The wound is the place where the light enters you."
Rumi
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge."
Rumi
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being."
Rumi
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."
Rumi
"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others."
Rumi
"What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout."
Rumi