Best Self Improvement Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.”

“Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”

“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”

“He that's secure is not safe.”

“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”

“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“A penny saved is two pence clear.”

“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.”

“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

“Mine is better than ours.”

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”

“There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.”

“Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.”

“Industry need not wish.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

“Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.”

“He that won't be counseled can't be helped.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”

“I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.”

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.”

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.”

“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“Our necessities never equal our wants.”

“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.”

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”

“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”

“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”

“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”

“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”

“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Danger is sauce for prayers.”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Remember that credit is money.”

“Where liberty is, there is my country.”

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”

“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

“A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.”

“When you're finished changing, you're finished.”

“The discontented man finds no easy chair.”

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

“Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”

“And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.”

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”

“Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”

“An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.”

“Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”

“Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.”

“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”

“In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

“You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?”

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.”

“For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.”

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

“Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.”

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”