Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words"

Eileen Caddy, Celebrity

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves"

Walter Anderson, Writer

"Ego is the enemy"

Ryan Holiday, Author

"Pursue progress, not perfection"

Ben Smith, Athlete

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

David Gilmour, Musician

"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on"

William McFee, Writer

"I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders"

Tyra Banks, Model

"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

"I am not a natural dancer"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"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

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace"

Josh McDowell, 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

"I'm going to do things when they are right for me"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I want to be all that I am capable of becoming"

Katherine Mansfield, 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

"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"I discovered myself!"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"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

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

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"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 have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

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

Ice T, Musician

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