Quotes about Personal Growth

My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.

Every woman needs to look in the mirror and instinctively decide what will make her feel happy and good about herself and her body; that's all I did.

Every day I wake up I look in the mirror and I say to myself, 'It's time.' The reason for that is I believe we're only as good as today.

I was declared bankrupt a few years ago, which really made me grow up and look in the mirror, face myself, and find strength.

I think because I was Miss World, and I modeled for a little while, I have - I just like heels, actually. I think that's the truth. I'm trying to find an excuse.

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

As a person who has lived through my parents' divorce, I don't feel lesser or that I've missed out. I didn't become an adult and think: 'My family really messed me up.'

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

I was really, really shy. My dad used to drive me for an hour and a half to go training. I used to finish school, jump in the car, come back, and go to bed. I missed out on socialising with my friends when I was a shy child anyway.

I led a sheltered life until I went to college. But I wasn't deprived and I can't say I missed anything as a kid except a lot of heartaches.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.

I want to become better, I don't want to let my mistakes define me.

There is no guru like our own mistakes.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

I have made a lot of mistakes.