Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Improvement Quotes

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it"

Beck, Musician

"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it"

Bertha von Suttner, Novelist

"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"A finished person is a boring person"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life"

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Philosopher

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints"

Rita Dove, Poet

"A man is literally what he thinks"

James Allen, Author

"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations"

William Feather, Author

"Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them"

Vernon Howard, Author

"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I still look at myself and want to improve"

David Beckham, Athlete

"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher

"The mind is like a garden. If you don't tend to it, weeds will grow"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"Being vulnerable allows us to connect more deeply with ourselves and others"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original"

Joseph Haydn, Composer

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I am a very selfish person"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"You've got to grow up sometime"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from"

Enya, Musician

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - A man is what he makes of himself"

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

"I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others"

Amy Winehouse, Musician

"How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"Don't go through life, grow through life"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

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