Self-improvement Quotes

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...

This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I...

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyon...

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God i...

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

I learn everyday what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel em...

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's pantie...

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have g...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility, or so I thought until I cast my mind ba...

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger t...

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if ...

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Ques...

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface ...

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shameles...

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what ...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not ...

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.