Self Improvement Quotations

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

 

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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.

 

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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
 

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Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
 

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
 

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Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.

 

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.

 

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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
 

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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

 

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