Dorothy Day Quotes

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

Improvement begins with I.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

No one's going to make you work on yourself except you.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

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

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.