Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H Maslow

The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
Anthony Robbins

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
John Heider

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
C.R. Lawton

Become addicted to constant and never ending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D’ Angelo

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.

Les Brown

Times will change for the better when you change.
Maxwell Maltz

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you could do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that’s the only person that does believe in your success but you.
Tim Blixseth

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
BC Forbes

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought, which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Napoleon Hill

Everybody has talent; it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
George Lucas

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
Phillip Calvin McGraw (Dr Phil)

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
Jim Rohn

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Antonius

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Mme. Du Deffand

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Sir William Jones

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry W. Longfellow

The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Abraham Maslow

We improve ourselves by victories over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

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