Quotes about Personal Growth

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

I like pushing myself as an actor.

I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

As long as I feel I'm pushing myself and my riding, then I'm where I want to be.

For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

I'm just going to keep pushing and try and be the best of version that I can be of me.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

I like challenges. I like pushing my body.

I'm constantly pushing myself to evolve and be a better person and the best that I can be and that pushes me in my fighting career and personal life.

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I never really set any time goals. I think that puts a limit on yourself.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

Every day, I'm journaling and making sure things I do wrong I change or try to fix and make better and things I do right I continue to do those more often.

At the start, when I started playing first-class cricket, I was a flamboyant player and I never used to take responsibility.