Things do not change, we change.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Improvement
in Patience, Kindness, Improvement, Anger, Perspective
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~ Seneca
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
~ Georg Lichtenberg
in Improvement, Mistakes, Wisdom
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
in Age, Happiness, Improvement
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
~ William Lyon Phelps
in Courage, Growth, Improvement, Strength
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
~ Maya Angelou
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
~ Goethe
in Accomplishment, Action, Improvement, Time, Urgency, Work
No day should pass without something being done.
~ Latin proverb
in Attitude, Change, Growth, Happiness, Improvement
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is never to late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans)
in Acceptance, Attitude, Being, Character, Growth, Hope, Improvement, Inspiration
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
~ Julius Charles Hare