Quotes About Self-improvement

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

I want to see how far I can go with my body. I always tell myself that I will be fit, but it never happens.

I don't like to use the word 'legacy' because it sounds a bit like I'm full of myself, but I am trying to see how far I can take myself, how far I can push being the best in the world.

It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I want to continue to grow in every way possible, as an actor, a woman, just as a human being in general. I think growth is just an all-around great idea.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

I have to humble myself.

It's how I was raised. My parents put me in a nice position, but that's all it is - a nice position. You've got to put in the work. You've got to humble yourself.

I just try to make sure, in everything I do, I do what I'm supposed to be doing in a confident and a humble way at the same time. It's been working for me.

I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

But certainly, I think that it's important to have humility and to acknowledge that you're learning every day as a leader.

I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)