Joseph Addison Quotes

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

I'm a work in progress.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.