Quotes About Self-improvement

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.

Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

I'm not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn't affect my life. I think that attitude helps to strengthen my character.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

I have made my mistakes my strengths instead of looking at whose fault it is.

You have to know your strengths and tell yourself you're the best.

Reminding yourself of your strengths can help chip away at your core belief that you aren't good enough to be successful.

The reason I score more and more goals, season after season, is I know my mistakes from the past, I know my strengths, and I work on my strengths, but the little points I want to get better, and it's constant.

You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

All stress can be used to better yourself, each individual has to understand how to use that particular stress - whether it is in your relationship, personal life, your own thoughts about yourself - to become a better person.

Generally, we have competed with ourselves... because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don't want the process of growth to be stressful.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.