Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"Little opportunities should be improved"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life if we simply live a neutral existence"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power"

Mark Rutherford, Writer

"We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there"

Harry Browne, Writer

"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative"

Harry Browne, Writer

"A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions"

Graham Nash, Musician

"And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"I am responsible for no one but myself"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems!"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth"

Ben Harper, Musician

"I've never been competitive with anybody but myself"

Ice T, Musician

"You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness"

Elaine MacDonald, Activist

"To make headway, improve your head"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times, I not only didn't want to see it for myself, but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"The thing is, at the end of the day, you still have to face yourself"

Dave Pelzer, Writer

"I wish I could be elegant"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not chasing comparisons. I'm building my own path"

Victor Wembanyama, Athlete

"I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone. I'm just trying to push myself"

Lindsey Vonn, Athlete

"Stop trying to be interesting. Be interested"

Codie Sanchez, Entrepreneur

"I'm always trying to push myself and do something new. I never want to feel like I'm repeating myself"

David Gilmour, Musician

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