Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now"

Anne Heche, Actress

"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be"

John Fowles, Writer

"If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me"

Ed Harris, Actor

"Treat your life like something to be sculpted"

Larry Niven, Writer

"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses"

Sarah Orne Jewett, Author

"I want to say to you, help yourself, so you can help someone else"

James Brown, Musician

"So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others"

Elijah Wood, Actor

"I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days"

Ted W. Engstrom

"Remember to be as smart as you are"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it"

Robert Powell, Actor

"Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves"

Edward Bach, Scientist

"I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once"

John Hartford, Musician

"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker"

Julie Christie, Actress

"I'm still growing. I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along"

Roy Haynes, Musician

"The way I look at it, you can always get better"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"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

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"I do think it's possible to change for the better"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"But to me, to be original is to be yourself"

Marc Newson, Designer

"Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin"

Tori Amos, Musician

"I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"I've always modeled myself after Ginger"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I discovered myself!"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

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