Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"The delights of self-discovery are always available"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self"

John Gay, Poet

"One does not become fully human, painlessly"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"We're all a work in progress. Nobody's perfect, and we all have our own insecurities"

Emma Heming Willis, Actress

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Socially, I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before, frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"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

"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

"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"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

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

Hulk Hogan, Celebrity

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Human improvement is from within outward"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber"

Frank Crane, Clergyman

"You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity"

Victoria Principal, Actress

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

Joan Didion, Author

"I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"I intend to be me. Whatever that is"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"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

"I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone"

Henry Rollins, Musician

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

Whitney Houston, Musician

"It was always me versus the world until I found it's me versus me"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

"You can't be what you can't see"

Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur

"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

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