Quotes about Personal Growth

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

Our music is becoming more mature.

I don't think everyone is 100% comfortable in their own skin, but we're learning to love ourselves more and more, and that's what we represent in our music.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can make art only from their knowledge - and ours - that they were child stars.

We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

To keep winning, I have to constantly outdo myself.

I have always wanted to outdo myself, be it films or shows.

Inner improvements create outer ones.

You just gotta hang around people that are really outgoing, and you'll end up, before you know it, you'll be an outgoing person.

I went to college, and I didn't want to be in a sorority, so I started working in restaurants. In my mind, that was my social outlet.

The outlook is for me to grow.