Quotes About Self-improvement

A real man said, "This is where I am, but I need not stay in the gutter. It is my duty to change what is evil or intolerable in my life. I was given the strength to choose my way, and I will choose it. To do less is to degrade myself by my own will.

None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.

I remembered that argument as being a turning point for me. I had imagined a narrative of redemption and self-improvement in which I was the heroic single father, rising to meet the challenge. But the reality was…what? How much of what had happened since then could I take credit for?

The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I do not associate with and I do not speak back to negativity.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.

I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I reached Delhi a few days early for the shooting of Gandhi, to prepare myself for the role by learning to spin the charkha, speak English correctly and take elocution lessons.

I'm a work in progress. I've started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.

Some people look at a loss and it's devastating, it's the end of the world, they go in a downward spiral and they let dirt get piled on them. You just got to brush yourself off. You can't let the dirt bury you.

The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

I'm not afraid to improve myself spiritually, emotionally, economically. I'm not afraid to take on that challenge.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.