Self improvement proverbs

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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.

- Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg99

◆ In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

- Henry W. Longfellow99

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

- Immanuel Kant99

◆ Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

- Will Rogers99

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

- Sir J. Stephen99

◆ Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

- Berthold Auerbach99

◆ Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!

- Mazzini99

◆ The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle99

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

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ It was the sacred rule among the Pythagoreans that they should every evening thrice run over the actions and affairs of the day.

- Dr. L. Watts99

◆ Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

- Sir William Jones99

◆ Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton99

◆ Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing.

- Proverb99

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

- Hitopadesa99