self-improvement Quotes

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case... ...

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in... ...

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

We become fair by acting fairly, moderate by acting moderately, and brave by acting bravely.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.