Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

I'm an A-Level player because I have the strength to look upon myself in the mirror and master my reality.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I'm always trying to grow myself.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

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

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

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.