Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"There's something really powerful about taking responsibility for your own life"

Natasha Lyonne, Actress

"I like the idea that you can't really move forward until you face yourself"

Natasha Lyonne, Actress

"I think vulnerability is strength"

Chris Pine, Actor

"You can't control how other people behave. You can only control how you react to it"

Chris Pine, Actor

"The truth is hard, but it's still the truth: if you want to get out of poverty, you have to take responsibility for your own life"

J. D. Vance, Politician

"The best way to understand yourself is to understand where you come from"

J. D. Vance, Politician

"I have somehow stumbled into this position of being a productivity expert because I found a way to make it fun"

Ali Abdaal, Entrepreneur

"I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"I have high expectations for myself. I want to be the best that I can be"

Mike Gesicki, Athlete

"I'm always trying to learn and grow and get better, and I'm excited for that next opportunity"

Mike Gesicki, Athlete

"I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable"

David Schwimmer, Actor

"I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people"

Roy Harper, Musician

"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"Everybody is improving, but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance"

Yao Ming, Athlete

"If I can get me out of the way, I can do anything"

Steve Earle, Musician

"It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself"

Claude M. Bristol, Writer

"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are"

Claude M. Bristol, Writer

"I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic, so to speak"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways: What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?"

Judd Hirsch, Actor

"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did"

Rosario Dawson, Actress

"I have learnt to be even more patient"

Roger Federer, Athlete

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor"

Anne Lamott, Author

"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage"

Micky Dolenz, Actor

"These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy"

Lauren Alaina, Musician

"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only"

Robert Shea, Author

"The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities"

Guy Finley, Writer

"And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him, by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare"

Theodore William Schultz, Economist

"My future's about trying to be a better man"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I, one day, hope to move to the brain"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"Inhabit ourselves, that we may indeed do what we want to do"

Mary Richards

"Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health and our success that we take control"

Robert Foster Bennett, Politician

"I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people"

Natalie Merchant, Musician

"I want to grow into the best person I can be"

Stephen Martin, Politician

"This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"I'm a more mature actress now"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

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