Catherine McAuley Quotes

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

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.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

We need to live day by day and to improve.

That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

Just because you couldn't do it yesterday doesn't mean you can't do it today.

The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY

Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

I'm actually improving.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.