Christopher Morley Quotes

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.