Quotes About Self-improvement

From 'America's Got Talent' I've learned to not look at all the bad comments and just concentrate on the positive.

I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how to give myself dramatic-looking eyes and how to contour my cheekbones.

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

Even though I live in New York, I still have this Jersey thing where I feel like I have to prove myself. I'm grateful for any chance I get to be the least talented person in the room, because it'll make me work that much harder.

Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.

When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I'd do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

I'm not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

I expect a lot from myself but, over time, I've learned to tame that.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

As I got older, I realised fake tan was rather messy and I wanted to look cleaner, classier and more demure.

A bit of a spray tan always leaves you feeling better.