Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"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

"But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort"

Frank Langella, Actor

"I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties"

Winona Ryder, Actress

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

Harry Browne, Writer

"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it"

Mark Victor Hansen, Businessman

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do"

Kathleen Winsor, Author

"I think it's always best to be who you are"

Halle Berry, Actress

"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

"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 grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"Be a perfectionist"

Ken Follett, Author

"I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much"

Michael Bay, Director

"Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more"

Rip Torn, Actor

"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"Clean out a corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic"

Laura Riding, Poet

"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

"When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others"

Jane Roberts, Author

"I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"I am responsible for no one but myself"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"I've had to do that all my life because my energy is way, way overwhelming"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

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

Ben Harper, Musician

"You create your own reality"

Jane Roberts, Author

"The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image"

Jane Roberts, Author

"If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves"

Learned Hand, Judge

"In many ways, I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one, so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

"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

"I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously"

Claire Danes, Actress

"It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others"

Eileen Caddy, Celebrity

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