Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom"

Janet Erskine Stuart, Poet

"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks"

Isaac Watts, Politician

"If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth"

Brittany Daniel, Actress

"But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?"

Tim Curry, Actor

"The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice, we change our every experience of life!"

Greg Anderson, Athlete

"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"

Hal Linden, Actor

"I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better"

Amelie Mauresmo, Athlete

"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it"

Clive Owen, Actor

"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends, and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well"

Bebe Neuwirth, Actress

"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations"

Samuel Ullman, Poet

"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality"

Princess Masako, Royalty

"My greatest competition is, well, me"

R. Kelly, Musician

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to"

Greg Anderson, Athlete

"The real rub is finding that authentic self, and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight"

Paul Guilfoyle, Actor

"Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective"

Nancy McKeon, Actress

"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be: look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers"

Lars Ulrich, Musician

"I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know"

Shania Twain, Musician

"I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"It's all about perfection, isn't it?"

Keira Knightley, Actress

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"If I were to ask you, for example, right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen"

James Lipton, Educator

"It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself"

Harold Rosenberg, Writer

"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough, and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon, and to resist the pressure of practical necessity"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"You can grow without destroying the things that you love"

Ed McMahon, Entertainer

"Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of"

Linda Evans, Actress

"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are"

Larry Norman, Musician

"The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step"

Patricia Sun, Author

"Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award, because when I speak to young people, I always try to tell them the importance about: it's not where you start, but where you end up"

Kevin Johnson, Athlete

"I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert"

John Thaw, Actor

"The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved"

George Dzundza, Actor

"And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more"

Kurt Masur, Musician

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