Quotes About Self-improvement

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.

Cada uno de nosotros viene a este mundo para corregir algo. Puede ser el equipaje que hemos traído con nosotros de vidas anteriores, o situaciones en las que hemos generado un cortocircuito en algún punto de nuestra vida actual.

Use every trial that comes to you as an opportunity to improve yourself.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life.

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.

for any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive—as my mother had—she was to thrive, learning many unnecessary skills, like tap dancing.

Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things!...

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

Big talk ain't changin' whut you doin'. You can't clean yo' self wid yo' tongue lak uh cat.

I never abused anybody but myself.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I try to focus on myself and focus on my team, and the individual accolades will come.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

People ask me what's the most important moment for me, and it's not fighting, winning or losing, it's the daily training. I'm addicted to this.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

I'm not aggressive enough.