Quotes About Self-improvement

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

I grew up with a single pair of shoes until I grew into the next size. My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.

I don't have the expertise in that department, I seriously lack the skill to market myself.

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

Nothing happens overnight for anyone. To become a skilled, accomplished artiste, you need time to work on yourself first.

I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

I keep my head up. I'm comfortable in my skin. I want to see progression in life, with myself and with others around me.

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Self worship is different from self love.