Improvement Quotes

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth-seeking journey either externally or internally, and if you are willing to regard everything that happens to you as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet as a teacher and if you are prepared to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

So smile, girl. Smile. Because nobody like a pity-party-havin'-ass woman.

You see, with that gesture we showed the world that America needed improvement. I don't believe that because we're one of the greatest countries on Earth that we're perfect.

The advancement of your birthday which is really only the improvement of yourself.

“Any ordeal that you can survive as a human
being is an improvement in your character,
and usually an improvement in your life.”

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

I think that having 20-20 hindsight vision gives us an incredible competitive advantage, and like many advantages, they will only serve those with the presence of mind to use them.

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Trying to fix ourselves is not helpful. It implies struggle and self-denigration.

One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding...two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do.

Only when the floor drops under your feet do you realize you have the ability to fly.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.