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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
 

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Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare
 

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Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Mme. Du Deffand
 

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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
B. R. Haydon
 

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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
 

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
 

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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry W. Longfellow
 

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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
 

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

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

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

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In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
 

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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 Hardenberg
 

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

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

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

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

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Remedy your deficiencies,
and your merits will take care of themselves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
 

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

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Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
 

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
 

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