Quotes About Self-improvement

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

For me, if there's something I don't like about myself, I'll accept it - the sooner you can accept it, then you can work on making it better.

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

When I started working on my sophomore album, I'd seen more.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

I would never have achieved what I've achieved now if I hadn't sorted myself out from the inside. It's all about who I am, not the way I look.

So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

At this age, all we need to do is to "WAIT" in our love life.Set your priorities, Endeavor your goals!

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like myself either.

After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.

...unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself.

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.