Quotes About Self-improvement

My past is ahead of me because I am beyond my past.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they'd be better off.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

If you're going to be a man and get in there and do this sport, you better man up and understand your own mistakes. There's no way to get around that. There's absolutely no way.

I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.

As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

It's important to reinvent yourself often, because if you don't, someone else will and squash you like a bug.

You cannot be in your 50s and not change your diet. That ministry won't work. You can't keep eating burgers and fries and thinking you're going to look cute and fabulous and trying to squeeze into that little black dress.

I'm very happy with my decision to go sober. It's helped my life. It's helped my mental stability.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive 'isms.' But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you'll see that you can alter your position on your own.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

I put my head on my pillow now, knowing that in the later stages in my career, from 2010 on, I did everything I possibly could do to be as good as I could possibly be, I know it sounds really cheesy but it was actually true.

I was always smaller than the rest coming up at Coventry, and I developed physically more in the later stages.