Anne Frank Quotes

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

Try to be a better person everyday.

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'