Quotes about Personal Growth

It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.

My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.

Every day I have a new idea or new outlook for my music, a new goal for my music and it's because I'm growing as a woman, as a human being as well. At the same time as I'm growing as an artist in the industry, I'm growing as a human.

I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.

I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

I'm not trying to say that the work I have done in the past is path-breaking, but I have definitely tried to pick the best from what I was offered and being an outsider with no one to guide me I think I have done well.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hair grow like crazy. What they didn't tell you back then was that once you get the Jheri curl, there's no way of getting rid of it, so when I was over it, I ended up having to cut off all my hair and start all over again.

To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But as soon as I left the Bahamas, that stuff was over. It was just straight business. I'm on a mission. That's how it's always been.

I'm grateful that I've matured and that I've gained that wisdom to be a better person, a better actress, a better musician and a better entertainer overall.

I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.

I've already overcome a lot of things in my career, and if I don't fight in the UFC anymore, for sure I'm gonna find other ways to keep growing my legacy.

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.

I had to overcome barriers of fear, inconsistency, believing in myself as an individual, and believing in the gift and believing that this could actually happen, and this is actually what I'm supposed to do.

When I started out in stand-up, I was already used to speaking in front of people, how to project, control my voice - a lot of learning curves I had overcome.