Quotes About Self Betterment

#1. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

Ben Shapiro

#3. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

Ellen Goodman

#4. Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

Christopher Hayes

#5. Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

Alan Dean Foster

#6. Young people cannot contribute to the betterment of society if they are
constantly focusing on how to improve their own position.

Eraldo Banovac

#7. The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

#8. The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Henry Miller

#10. If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

Christine De Pizan

#11. At 18, if I am mature enough to vote a leader for the nation's betterment, why am I ineligible to choose what I shall study for my own betterment?

Anand J.

#12. If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

Andrew Saul

#13. Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

Dagobert D. Runes

#14. The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Herbert Hoover

#15. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

Gerry Spence

#16. Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want
I want
I want
was all that she could think about
but just what this real want was she did no know.

Carson McCullers

#17. Don't underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life's purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.

Saad Salman

#18. He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Mungo MacCallum

#19. Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#20. miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Albert Einstein

#22. True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

Jim George

#23. Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Johan Huizinga

#24. The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

David Packard

#25. The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#26. It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

J.R. Rim

#27. Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

Erica Goros

#28. You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth.

Bryant McGill

#29. Your past isn't there to decide who you are; it's there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

Toni Sorenson

#30. Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract 'good luck'.

George S. Clason

#31. The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

Richard Cornuelle

#32. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

#33. A better life is waiting for you to show up.

Bryant McGill

#34. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.

Talib Kweli

#35. Asha believed a person seeking betterment should try as many schemes as possible, since it was hard to predict which one might work.

Katherine Boo

#36. The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself - ever.

Bryant McGill

#37. If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Ramez Naam

#38. The 4-H Clubs believe in and practice the full development of our talents. They believe in physical and mental health. Beyond this there is an underlying creed of honesty of purpose. These objectives and practical projects make the 4-H Clubs a tremendous influence for the betterment of our country.

Fred M. Vinson

#39. If you can teach me something for my betterment then you get my respect and gratitude, but if you are here only to criticize, then I have no time or ears for you!

Maddy Malhotra

#40. The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

Henry Giroux

#41. If you keep wondering about how bad is your life, you wont be able to work towards its betterment.

Chandan Sharma

#42. Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Guadalupe Neri

#43. Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

Saul Bellow

#44. One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.

Hina Hashmi

#45. A Godless life is a goalless life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#46. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#47. Greatness of life depends not on what we do for ourselves, but on what we do for the betterment of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#48. I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.

Dan Pearce

#49. Your life has tremendous value to you. It becomes a precious diamond for humanity to enjoy when you donate it for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment.

Debasish Mridha

#51. True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Socrates

#52. Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Dinesh D'Souza

#53. Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

#54. The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.

Joel T. McGrath