Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
 

 

 

Socrates

 

 

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
 

 

 

Oliver Goldsmith 

 

 

 

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

 

 

Mme. Du Deffand

 

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

 

B. R. Haydon

 

Change yourself and fortune will change with you.

 

Portugese Proverb

 

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. 

 

Thomas Sprat

 

 

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.

 

 

Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg