Self Improvment Quotes & Sayings

What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you. — C.L. Grant

You will never learn to fly unless you jump! — Weston L. Blair

Once they're in...they stay in. And that little bitch invited that evil into herself like a hard dick on prom night. — Kyle M. Scott

You are an endless project ... changing, evolving, surprising. — James Patterson

Writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics. — Edward Frenkel

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do. — Anne Robinson

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. — Charlie Chaplin

Detective Castilla, your Secret is safe with me." She blinked with surprise, and I groaned. "God, Holden. How long have you been waiting to use that line?"
"About three years."
"And in three years you couldn't find any room for improvment? — Sierra Dean

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing. — Brea Grant

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress. She smiled at him.
"Hello, Bod," she said.
"Hello," he said, as he danced with her. "I don't know your name."
"Names aren't really important," she said.
"I love your horse. He's so big! I never knew horses could be that big."
"He is gentle enough to bear the mightiest of you away on his broad back, and strong enough for the smallest of you as well."
"Can I ride him?" asked Bod.
"One day," she told him, and her cobweb skirts shimmered. "One day. Everybody does."
"Promise?"
I promise. — Neil Gaiman

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived. — Touaxia Vang

Don't kid yourself.Be honest with yourself.Take your own inventory. — Jack Canfield

Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me. — Antoni Tapies

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide. — Mariel Hemingway

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing. — Daniel Goleman

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make. — Cory Booker

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen. — Mark Mulder