The day you become satisfied is the day you stop improving.
– Ron Malhotra
Don’t rush the process. Allow yourself to grow at your own pace. Stop comparing your life to what other people are achieving.
In order to grow, we need to know ourselves. To understand what triggers certain behavior, we need to identify the root cause.
– Adiela Akoo
To grow everyday, learn everyday.
Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become.
– Shane Parrish
Be wary of spending a lot of time with people whose default behavior is not your desired behavior.
To change your behavior, spend time with people or groups whose default actions are your desired behavior.
– Shane Parrish
It’s simple arithmetic: Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.
– T. Harv Eker
Awakening, self-realization, and seeing into one’s own being- these are synonymous.
– Bruce Lee
Constantly look for challenges, pushing past your comfort zone.
– Robert Greene
The desire for self-development stems from ‘narcissistic’ desires, a tendency to self-aggrandizement and superiority over others.
– Sigmund Freud
To improve at something, consistently put yourself in an uncomfortable place. Start a startup, train for a marathon, or commit to writing every day. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
– Sahil Lavingia
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.
– Naval Ravikant
If you are focused on being better than others, you’re not focused on getting better. When you focus on being better than yesterday, it’s easy to root for others.
– Shane Parrish
Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.
– Elon Musk
Improvement begins when you have the discipline to confront the facts.
– Shane Parrish
Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.
– Chetan Bhagat
There’s always a way to improve.
– Rupert Murdoch
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.
– Madonna
I still look at myself and want to improve.
– David Beckham
If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
But I don’t want to be compared to anyone – I’d like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
– Bill Gates
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
– Mark Zuckerberg
We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?
– Meghan Markle
Take things with a grain of salt, and find balance within your life. On your lunch break, leave to go and get some fresh air. You don’t need to make your life your job. I have to find that balance for myself, as well…I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn’t become the end-all be-all.
– Meghan Markle
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
– William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
– William Faulkner
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
– Tryon Edwards
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you’ve achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
– Lynn Johnston
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
– T.S. Eliot