Quotes About Self-improvement

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I spent six months really healing and recovering and working on myself.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

We need to know how to handle the criticism.

We're focused on ourselves and winning our games and handling our business. We'll let the chips fall in place.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

You would not hang out with people that talk to you the way you talk to yourself. So get out of your head! Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel! I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you want - you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it.

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

I didn't want to come back and be mediocre; I wanted to hang in with the girls, and I wanted to prove myself every week.

Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.

Nothing makes me happier than for a woman to come up to me saying, 'I started exercising, and I lost weight, and I got a new man,' and you know, I get chills thinking about it. It's my purpose; I feel like I found my purpose.

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

I will not be a very satisfied, happy person if I don't perform at the level that I expect.