Quotes About Self-improvement

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

The truth is I've trained myself for much of my career.

The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

When you live a truthful life, you can smile without anything behind it; uninhibited joy knowing that you are doing your best to be the best person you can be.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.