Quotes About Self-improvement

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.

We all get self-centered.

I'm very self-critical.

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

I don't know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

I am so self-critical.

I am self-critical and always have been.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I've worked very hard on my self-esteem, and I know my value.

I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.

I do believe in self-help.

I was inspired by self-help books.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

I think I just gotta get more selfish.

You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.

I stopped drinking on 24 September 1986.

I think everybody, at some point, rather feels that they have to shake themselves up somehow.

I didn't get etiquette classes, which is a shame because someone like me needs them.

If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.