Quotes About Personal-growth

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Necesitamos aprender del Maestro de Nazaret a hacer un «aseo general» en el templo de nuestro interior. Volcar la «mesa» de los pensamientos negativos. Extirpar el «comercio» del miedo y de la inseguridad. Reciclar nuestra rigidez y evaluar la superficialidad con que reaccionamos ante los eventos de la vida.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Once we begin to think clearly about neuroplasticity we are inevitably drawn to the question of what we want from life – what we consider to be a good life. Each of us must answer that for ourselves. But we are best able to do so when we understand the threats that some substances and behaviours pose to our capacity to choose the lives we want.

I am trying to find myself in all of the chaos, find something that I can call me inside the screams and inside the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

I think it's the opportunity to continue breaking records, either set by other people or by myself. I think that's what pushes me to always make the most of myself and be very demanding on myself.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you're more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that's a really great basis on which to live your life.

Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.

I suggest you start seeing yourself the way he sees you and work on being the best you instead of worrying about what you're not.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

That's me giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change

Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

if one wants to live a full life, one first sets one's own house in order;