E. B. White Quotes

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Improvement begins with I.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.