Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster"

Haley Joel Osment, Actor

"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me, and I feel like it formed my character in a big way, because of what I was exposed to"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"Be yourself, take control of your life"

Emma Bunton, Musician

"That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something"

Meredith Monk, Composer

"How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am"

Thomas Wilson, Writer

"What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do"

Mike Farrell, Actor

"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by"

Lili Taylor, Actress

"We think that we have great potential, but never reach it"

Josh Silver, Musician

"I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with"

J. Carter Brown

"I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others"

David Soul, Actor

"It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be"

Russell M. Nelson, Clergyman

"For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at"

Geddy Lee, Musician

"Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority"

Russell M. Nelson, Clergyman

"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work"

Marion Cotillard, Actress

"I found at an early age, the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"I am reactive"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life"

Emmet Fox, Author

"I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly"

Paul Putner, Comedian

"I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill"

John C. Reilly, Actor

"My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally, and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it"

Katherine Moennig, Actress

"I try to be the best man I can for the day"

James Caviezel, Actor

"Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through"

Geddy Lee, Musician

"It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"You've got to keep an open mind"

Chris Wallace, Journalist

"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"You can always be a little bit better"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better"

Geddy Lee, Musician

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"Each and every year, I feel like I've gotten a little bit better, and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws"

Donald Fagen, Musician

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be, which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts, so shall thy life be"

Emmet Fox, Author

"If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline!"

Brandon Lee, Actor

"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

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