Quotes About Self-improvement

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

People are gonna like who they like, there's nothing you can do about it. Just go out there, do what you do best, play your game and try to become a better person on and off the court.

I think that's the biggest thing, just helping me grow on and off the court. It's always what I've been about, and I think that's special.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.