37 Quotes About Bettering Yourself

Finding a way to be the best version of yourself allows your emotional intelligence to remain high. These quotes about bettering yourself offer the perfect words of encouragement you need to bring improvements to your life.

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations.”

“Change is your friend not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow”

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

“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.”

“Growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people who are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success”

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”

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

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been.”

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

“If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin.”

“It’s not about money or connections—it’s the willingness to out work and outlearn everyone…And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.”

“Let us cultivate our garden.”

“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.”

“Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.”

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“The health of your brain is much more about your actions than your age.”

“The key to happiness is really progress and growth and constantly working on yourself and developing something.”

“The time is now. Stop hitting the snooze button on your life.”

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

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

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”

“We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents, and interests.”

“When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you’re running your own business, but it’s how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.”

“When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.”

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”

“You’re either green and growing or you’re ripe and rotting.”

“You’ve got to have rules to live by, and one of mine is always say yes. Put yourself in danger of something amazing happening to you.”

There are various ways you can go about bettering yourself. Strengthening your inner self will strengthen your resolve for the long term.