Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

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"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which, without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it"

Herman Gorter, Poet

"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

Olympia Dukakis

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself"

Gerald Brenan, Writer

"And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy, but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"I'm not good at accepting help"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it"

Tori Amos, Musician

"I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

Ryan Gosling

"I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl"

Christina Ricci, Actress

Christina Ricci

"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it, and it's probably not going to be good press for me, and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"The highest qualities of character... Must be earned"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn: that nobody gets a free ride, and that you do the best you can with the means that you can, and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

Joe Mantegna

"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone"

Anna Neagle, Actress

Anna Neagle

"I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

"I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. All, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"It's important to be true to yourself and your vision"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"No One Is Alone, by Stephen Sondheim, is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"I learned that asking for help is also a form of strength"

J Balvin, Musician

J Balvin

"Your limitations can be your greatest asset"

Jay Duplass, Actor

"If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want"

Zendaya, Actress

Zendaya

"Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different... just be you"

Zendaya, Actress

Zendaya

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love"

Idris Elba, Actor

Idris Elba

"I'm about progress. I'm about evolving"

A$AP Rocky, Musician

A$AP Rocky

"I'm just trying to keep getting better every day and enjoy the ride"

Ben Shelton, Athlete

"People are going to need to adapt and learn new skills, and that's always true, but I think it's particularly true now"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

Sam Altman

"Escape competition through authenticity"

Naval Ravikant, Entrepreneur

Naval Ravikant

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