Quotes About Self-improvement

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

I've never looked down on anyone who uses the system, but I believe that it's a temporary station in life and that we should all work toward getting off it. And once we get off it, we should pay back to that system.

My 2016 New Year's resolution is basically to stop using profanity.

I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.

It's been so much fun for me here in Utah and growing up here, starting a family, growing from a basketball standpoint, growing from just a man standpoint.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

I feel like anytime I have a vacation, I'm stressed, or 'I got to go back in the gym,' like I'm going to miss so much time that I need to be working on improving.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I train and keep in shape. It's quite vain.

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

To me, the #1 key to success is 'creating lasting positive change in yourself and others.' That is what is most rare, most difficult, and most valuable about leading people.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.