Meanings of self-cultivation in English

A woman also needs self-cultivation, both physical and mental, in order to self-respect.

The com-parison of T'ai Chi Ch'uan to self-cultivation and good health goes without saying.

They practiced self-cultivation and seriousness & owned to a bewildering complexity of attitudes & rites.

He understood that mankind believed in an unbroken work of development within nature, and in their own self-cultivation.

Do you know, he is very witty and well informed, though he says he never had much time for self-cultivation?

There were always sitters in his studio: he had as much work as he could do; while yet he found time for self-cultivation.

However, the structure of the spine is not as important as its function which is the path and means of self-cultivation and preserving life.

Instead we should look to the exquisite idleness of Oscar Wilde and rediscover the dream of a future of leisure, beauty and self-cultivation for all.

Fortunate it is, then, that self-cultivation in the use of English must chiefly come through speech; because we are always speaking, whatever else we do.

Self-cultivation had done much for him.