Quotes About Self-improvement

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

I studied and grew as a man so that the situation of being wrongly accused wouldn't define me.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

You've got to be harsh on yourself because it is the only way you are going to get better by studying those situations where you may have fallen short.

I do the functional stuff. I go to the gym and do all these things by myself. I don't have a routine. I like to do new stuff all the times.

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

It is essential to forgive. Otherwise it stunts the growth.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.

Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.