Improvement

(297 votes)   When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.

Gilbert Arland

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(225 votes)   All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(194 votes)   He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(140 votes)   He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(135 votes)   Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(132 votes)   The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Charles A. Lindbergh
1902-1974, American Pilot, Made The First Flight From New York To Paris

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(126 votes)   The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

Dennis the Menace

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(119 votes)   Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(118 votes)   What you become directly influences what you get.

Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

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(116 votes)   Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(114 votes)   Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(94 votes)   Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement

Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant

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(92 votes)   But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(91 votes)   I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader

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(83 votes)   The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

David Lee Roth
American Rock Musician

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