Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

Find thoughtful self-improvement quotes that encourage consistent progress, mindful habits, and a resilient mindset. This selection highlights themes like discipline, curiosity, patience, and learning from setbacks. Use these lines as gentle prompts for daily reflection, goal setting, and renewed motivation. Whether you are building routines, strengthening focus, or embracing change, the words collected here can help you stay grounded, measure progress, and keep moving with clarity and purpose.

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"Living well is the best revenge"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

Dale Carnegie

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy"

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician

Johann Heinrich Lambert

"As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

Ray Kroc

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character"

John Morley, Statesman

John Morley

"Improvement begins with I"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

Mat Fraser

"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

Michael J. Fox

"People mistake their limitations for high standards"

Jean Toomer, Author

"Your life is a result of the choices you make... If you don't like your life, it is time to start making better choices"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

Heston Blumenthal

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"You have to water the flowers you want to grow"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

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