Quotes About Self-improvement

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.