becoming better Quotes

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

“Cause all that it takes is a little reinvention It’s easy to change if you give it your attention All you gotta do Is just believe you can be who you wanna be Sincerely. . . me.”

“Imagine, I might really become somebody. Someday.”

“We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.”

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

“Why does a man want his children to be better than himself?”

“We become what we repeatedly do.”

“Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

“If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.”

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us. -ENGLISH POET.”

“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”

“Love makes you want to be a better man - right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

“You have become a small giant since the day Danny’s ball struck your eye. You do not see it. But I see it. And it is a beautiful thing to see.”

“There’s not so much of an attack on masculinity as much as it’s just completely dismissed.”

“Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.”

“Most of us become more conscientious, confident, caring, and calm with life experience.”

“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.”

“It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things.”

“Though ne’er to true perfection may arrive This race accurs’d, yet nearer then than now They shall approach it.”

“When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can’t be found, you guarantee they won’t.”

“Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.”

“Seek the goodness, become the goodness.”

“tell them im strong tell them im a man good by mr wigin.”

“I’m a believer in the perfectibility of human beings. I think we can be better. I think we can be perfect or near to it. And when we become our best selves, the possibilities are endless.”

“All these things, and their like can be occasions of sin because, good though they are, they are of the lowest order of good, and if we are too much tempted by them we abandon those higher and better things, your truth, your law, and you yourself, O Lord our God.”

“The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”

“By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?”

“The most important word a man can say are, ‘I will do better.‘”

″‘I will take responsibility for what I have done,’ Dalinar whispered. ‘If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.‘”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.”

“I run with purpose in every step. My best days are still out in front of me. My greatest victories are in my future. I will become everything I was created to be. I will have everything God intended for me to have. I am the redeemed of the Lord, and I say so today!”

“Read over these declarations every day. Get them down in your spirit. Meditate on them. They may not all be true right now, but as you continue to speak them, they will become a reality. ‘I am blessed. I am prosperous. I am successful.’ ‘I am victorious. I am talented. I am creative.’ ‘I am wise. I am healthy. I am in shape.’ ‘I am energetic. I am happy. I am positive.’ ‘I am passionate. I am strong. I am confident.’ ‘I am secure. I am beautiful. I am attractive.’ ‘I am valuable. I am free. I am redeemed.’ ‘I am forgiven. I am anointed. I am accepted.’ ‘I am approved. I am prepared. I am qualified.’ ‘I am motivated. I am focused. I am disciplined.’ ‘I am determined. I am patient. I am kind.’ ‘I am generous. I am excellent. I am equipped.’ ‘I am empowered. I am well able.’ ‘I am a child of the Most High God.’”

“You don’t become unstoppable by following the crowd, you get there by doing something better than anyone else can do it,and proving every day why you are the best at what you can do.”

“Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more.”

“It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It’s only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When you feel centered and alive, you are in a much better position to be a better person.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“It’s a matter of transitions, you see; the changing, the becoming must be cared for closely. You would do as much for the seedlings as they become plants in the field.”

“The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.”

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bride in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.”

″ Do the best you can, until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.”

“If you accept as fact that the only limitations you ever encounter in your sport are mental, then you will become a better fire walker, creeping closer to your unreachable physical limit than you would otherwise.”

“The only one! He was unique. He was special. Matt’s heart swelled with pride. If he wasn’t human, he might become something even better.”

His question is partially answered by the man’s married mistress; he no longer wanted to live because “he would never be a great painter.”

“Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.”