"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."
– Les Brown
"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
– Carlyle
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
– Aldous Huxley
"It is necessary to try to surpass one's self aways; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
- Queen Christina
"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things."
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
