We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and “I'll get it better tonight.” So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.
