Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"I pray and try every day to be a better actor"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me"

Phil Collins, Musician

"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings"

Lloyd Alexander, Writer

"I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow, and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be, eventually where I inspire to be, and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come"

Nia Long, Actress

"I think skating helped me find myself"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"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

"Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer"

John Hall

"I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist"

Ike Turner, Musician

"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out, what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it, and then I come down again - a better man"

Ray Davies, Musician

"I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time!"

Jewel, Musician

"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them"

Judith Wright, Poet

"Challenge yourself, it's fine not to be a totally finished person"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life"

Judith Wright, Poet

"Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after!"

Jimmy Smith

"Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself"

Francis Wright, Activist

"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"I'm trying to get out of my own way"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself"

Lindsay Wagner, Actress

"From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within"

Judith Wright, Poet

"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart"

George Michael, Musician

"Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling!"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"I think that certainly my choices empower me"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

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