Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I think one thing I've always focused on is getting better instead of getting somewhere.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

The doer alone learneth.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

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