Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness"

Sean Paul, Musician

"The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way"

Janet Fitch, Author

"The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself, with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities"

Colin Wilson, Writer

"The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself"

Colin Wilson, Writer

"The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I". His main business is to find his way back to himself"

Colin Wilson, Writer

"In life, it's important to stay true to yourself and not let anyone else dictate your path"

Camilla Belle, Actress

"I think it's important to be involved in things you're passionate about, whether it's a charity, a social cause, or just something that really speaks to you"

Camilla Belle, Actress

"I will always be someone who is trying to become better"

Kenji Miyazawa, Poet

"I don't know who I am as a person yet. But I do know who I don't want to be, and I don't want to be somebody who just turns up and shakes hands and doesn't actually get involved in the community"

Prince Harry, Royalty

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real"

Shirley Booth, Actress

"You have to know who you are, if you don't, you have nightmares"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering"

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Author

"I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less"

Mike Murdock, Clergyman

"Every decision that you make, you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life"

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Author

"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself"

Robert Henri, Artist

"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are"

James Mackintosh, Judge

"The best thing we can do is develop our own"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth"

Judith Wright, Poet

"Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness"

Sean Paul, Musician

"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be"

James Broughton, Director

"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what we're going through in terms of stardom and recognition"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"Everybody wants to be perfect"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal"

Lindsay Wagner, Actress

"I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love"

Lindsay Wagner, Actress

"You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances, but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself"

Joy Page, Actress

"I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama"

Ali MacGraw, Actress

"There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort"

Ajay Devgan, Actor

"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand, and the less judgmental I am"

Ali MacGraw, Actress

"Experience really does make you better, man"

Alan Vega, Musician

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