Quotes About Self-improvement

Life is about overcoming self-doubt. But you don't grow if you don't question yourself.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

If you're always questioning things, you realize the way you're living is just not as beneficial as it could be.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

I quit hanging around people who made me feel bad.

I watch quite a lot of my matches with Arsenal, and when I look back and see what I didn't do right, I try to learn from it, which hopefully facilitates my progression.

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

I think I've become more professional or more marketable. That happened naturally, and I think 'RuPaul's Drag Race' had a lot to do with that.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

Don't fill your free time with random things - if you're bored, get in the gym. Other than that, just stick to a routine and don't change it.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

Furthermore, I don't believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

I used to think I was a bad person, I'd drink and gamble a lot and I didn't want to but I kept on doing it and ending back at the same place. It made me think 'this can't be right, I'm not that bad of a person'.

Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.