self-improvement quotes

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

God always wants us to be growing.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Humble people ask for help.

Things do not change; we change.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.