If it were possible to look at your life from the outside, would you be happy with everything that is happening? I find this to be an important question to ask yourself regularly. UrbanDictionary.com defines self-improvement as, "The act to make changes to one's lifestyle positively. This is not limited to exercise, taking up a new hobby, participating in more social events, meditation, adding an extra-curricular, or intellectual enrichment."

If you think about it, humans have always been improving themselves through evolution...so why shouldn't you be trying to make yourself better as a human? By working on your self-improvement, you will feel so much better about yourself and it will help you achieve your goals.

Here are five quotes to help you focus on self-improvement:

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If you are holding yourself back, you will never make any improvements. Just remember to go into self-improvement with an open mind; you will never know what will happen.

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Don't ever worry about what other people think about you; the only thoughts about you that matter should be from your own mind. Other people don't know your own potential, it is all on you.

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This is probably my favorite quote of the bunch. Self-improvement is something that, after a while of doing it, will become addicting. This quote also means that you should always try to keep improving yourself.

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Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite authors, so of course I had to include this quote. It is impossible to live without changing, so just know that it is a part of life and just happens.

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I am always improving myself, whether by my actions in my present, or by the goals I make for myself in the future. No matter what, through focusing on my self-improvement, I have learned to always be proud of myself.