Quotes About Self-improvement

I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business: always wanting to prove you can do more. I don't ever remember a time when I've said, My God, I've cracked it - this is lovely.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

Growing up, I was not athletic.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Everybody has a way to get to college. You study in high school, you do your work. There are always grants or loans that can be available. I guarantee you - if you want it, you can get it. Don't close the door on yourself.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Every day you go to the gym, you've got to become a better version of yourself. You've got to never believe you've fully evolved.

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

We're not saying people don't need fuel for strenuous work; they just don't need it constantly. People have many more resources at hand than they might think.

It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

Many people mess up every new day with what happened yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday, and in so doing pollute a potentially wonderful day. When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak. The best thing we can do with past failures is to let them be history.

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often courage.