Better Yourself Quotes

• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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  Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Excellence

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• I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

  Goldie Hawn

  Beauty, Confidence, Running

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

  "You Learn by Living".

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• It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Past

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• Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

  T. D. Jakes

  Triumph, Praying, Celebrate

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• If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Order, People, Want

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Car, Battle, Trying

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• I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film and I think I am growing with each movie. And I think it's important because you need to strive to better yourself.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Education, Children, School

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Responsibility, Acting, Roles

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Is Our New Class' 'Next Johnny Depp'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

  Dick Vitale

  Moving, Two, Fire

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• It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.

  Indraneel Bhattacharya

  Dream, Important, Actors

  Source: www.ibtimes.co.in

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• I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

  Charlie Benante

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Opportunity, Forgiving, Doe

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

  Brad Lidge

  Careers, Pitching, Improvement

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• Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)

  Richard Allen

  Mistake, Giving, Learn From Your Mistakes

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• I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first time. It's a humbling experience because you realize that you are here and now you have an opportunity to go to work and continue to better yourself as a player. It's what you work for as an athlete and you know once you get there the real work begins.

  Giovani Bernard

  Real, Athlete, Opportunity

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

  Karl Kraus

  Advice, Neighbor, Valuable

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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