Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... A lot of people don't have the courage to do it"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world"

Anne Frank, Writer

"If you want to get positive results, you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of man I wanted to be"

Hulk Hogan, Celebrity

"It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... For that I give thanks"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value"

Henry Reed, Poet

"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority"

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

"All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons"

Marsha Sinetar, Author

"The mind is just another muscle"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset"

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

"Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it"

Jean Toomer, Author

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs"

Joan Didion, Author

"I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives"

Henry Reed, Poet

"It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life"

Henry Reed, Poet

"Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome"

Ali ibn Abi Talib, Clergyman

"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself!"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end"

Blaine Lee, Author

"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength if you want to raise their character"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"I simply did not want my face to be my talent"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"To be as good as our fathers, we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Our ideals are our better selves"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"Responsibility educates"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me"

Lena Horne, Actress

"There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

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