"Self-improvement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at about thirteen years of age, but they make a very great mistake if they leave off learning at that age. Time might be roughly divided off into four parts—necessary work, work for others, self-improvement, and recreation. A man's education is never completed. A man is never too old to learn. Whilst you are a boy and lad you need to be taught; afterwards you can to a great extent learn for yourself. You should never be content to remain just ...
— Boys - their Work and Influence • Anonymous
... for these safeguards, the woman of society must bid good-by to all opportunities for solitude, self-improvement, or the fulfillment ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... the father of the child ignored it. For some years the boy "just growed," after the manner of Topsy. Nobody helped him. But the boy differed in one way from his thoughtless little playmates. There was a mysterious something in him that drove him eagerly to avail himself of any opportunity for self-improvement that came along. If the opportunity, as generally happened, failed to "come along," he went after it with all his might ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various
... combine a didactic aim with artistic excellence is among the most difficult of literary experiments. If the lesson or principle to be inculcated be given too much prominence, the reader who opens the book for entertainment will shut it very soon in spite of any prospective self-improvement. If narrative interest or artistic beauty be the most striking feature of the work, its serious aim will be unnoticed. The safest plan for the writer of the novel of purpose to pursue, is to openly acknowledge his object, and to place that object before ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... above all mercenary anxieties, I gave my attention entirely to the self-improvement necessary to my appearance before his highness as a representative character on whom the eyes of all Sprucehill were fixed. I would say the world—only for the modest consciousness that comes over me when I think of ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
|
