14 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Self improvement

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on self improvement

39. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

51. In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

54. He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

66. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

72. Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

81. We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.

86. Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.

96. To this end we now need many preparatory courageous human beings who cannot very well leap out of nothing - any more than out of the sand and slime of present-day civilization and metropolitanism: human beings who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities; human beings who are bent on seeking in all things for what in them must be overcome; human beings distinguished as much by cheerfulness, patience, unpretentiousness, and contempt for all great vanities as by magnanimity in victory and forbearance regarding the small vanities of the vanquished; human beings whose judgment concerning all victors and the share of chance in every victory and fame is sharp and free; human beings with their own festivals, their own working days, and their own periods of mourning, accustomed to command with assurance but instantly ready to obey when that is called for, equally proud, equally serving their own cause in both cases; more endangered human beings, more fruitful human beings, happier beings!

117. Ich weiss um den Hass und Neid eures Herzens. Ihr seid nicht gross genug, um Hass und Neid nicht zu kennen. So seid denn gross genug, euch ihrer nicht zu schamen!

126. Then will he who goes under bless himself for being one who goes over and beyond; and the sun of his knowledge will stand at high noon for him.

154. A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

206. Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

217. Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

222. No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.