Fiona Apple Quotes

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I have to continue to be very demanding of myself in order to evolve.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.