#improvement

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#motivation #success-self-improvement #the-win #motivational

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#motivational #success-self-improvement #work-ethic #motivational

Never put off writing until you are better at it. ↗

— Gary Henderson

#improvement #on-writing #writing #improvement

My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves. ↗

— Veronica Blade

#self-improvement #thought-provoking #wise-words #thought-provoking

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#depression #depression-humor #happiness #marriage-advice #morality

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#credit #developments #discoveries #due #feel

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. ↗

— John S. Bell

#believe #counter #currently #difficult #efficiency

Work on your character, let life fall into place. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#life #philosophical #self-improvement #life

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#ancient rome #confident #continual #expansion #human

There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money