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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. - Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

3.1 · 37 votes · 164 reads

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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America

PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

3.1 · 50 votes

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As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

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BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

4.5 · 33 votes

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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. - Unknown, Source

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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

3.9 · 51 votes

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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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Henri Frédéric Amiel

WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

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I can't stand whining.

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Hillary Clinton

PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

4.3 · 32 votes · 180 reads

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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Abraham Lincoln

PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

4.6 · 49 votes · 131 reads

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I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

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Christine Lagarde

EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

3.7 · 34 votes · 157 reads

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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century
3.1 · 60 votes · 155 reads
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The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. - Unknown, Source
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4.0 · 14 votes · 62 reads
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.9 · 12 votes · 69 reads
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The never-ending task of self improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.0 · 5 votes · 66 reads
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.6 · 48 votes · 143 reads
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
3.0 · 8 votes · 8 reads
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.6 · 56 votes · 43 reads
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