E. F. Schumacher Quotes

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

I want to continue to grow in every way possible, as an actor, a woman, just as a human being in general. I think growth is just an all-around great idea.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

Perfection can be had by everybody.

I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being.