Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

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

Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur

"Perfectionists are their own devils"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

"Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is, I can't see its symptoms in myself"

Keith Miller, Author

"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you"

Judith Light, Actress

"I learned so much from Tony Danza; I learned so much about myself"

Judith Light, Actress

"The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create, the more we can become magnificent people"

Judith Light, Actress

"Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking, the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"I want more out of life than I've gotten"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18, it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly"

James Taylor, Musician

"A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them"

Keith Miller, Author

"I have achieved an inner freedom"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"I haven't been worried about my image, so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original"

Aaliyah, Musician

"There are times I can't even figure myself out"

Aaliyah, Musician

"He who stops being better stops being good"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes, when we should say no"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"When we begin to heal ourselves, we heal the world"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of ourselves"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"The only way to truly change the world is to change ourselves first"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"We are all here to learn and grow. The challenges we face are our greatest teachers"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"The healing journey is a journey to the self, to acceptance, to forgiveness, and to love"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important"

John Boorman, Director

"You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"If you don't understand your limitations, you won't achieve much in your life"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I am not very introspective"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

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