Angelina Jolie Quotes

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push yourself. That is where the power of growth lies.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

Be your own motivation.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you have too many accolades you don't try harder. I would never allow myself to think that I don't have to try harder. I like the idea of always learning, always trying to do better. The word "master" sits uneasy on my terms.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

If you want to inspire the world, first inspire yourself.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.