self-improvement Quotes

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

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.