#1: Socrates
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
#2: Willam Faulkner
"Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
#3: Tryon Edwards
"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
#4: Jimmy Carter
"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."
#5: Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
#6: Abraham Lincoln
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
#7: Sir William Jones
"Never neglect an opportunity for improvement."
#8: Brian Tracy
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
#9: Anthony Robbins
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."
#10: James Allen
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."