Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Personal Growth Quotes
EmpathyPersonal GrowthProfessional DevelopmentSelf-ImprovementUnderstanding Others I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
GoalsLife JourneyPersonal GrowthReflectionSelf-awareness Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
Inner StrengthOvercoming NegativityPersonal GrowthResilienceSelf-awareness I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
AutonomyEducationEmpowermentLeadershipPersonal Growth I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
ArtCreativityEmpathyExpressionPersonal Growth When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.
Character DevelopmentEducationKnowledge and MoralityPersonal GrowthSchool Curriculum Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
FriendshipPersonal GrowthPurposeSpirituality Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
EffortPerseverancePersonal GrowthResponsibilitySelf Reliance You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
IndependenceIntimacyMarriagePersonal GrowthRelationships Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
CreativityIndependenceObservationPersonal GrowthSelf-education I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
Independent LearningPersonal GrowthSelf RelianceTeacher Guidance You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Expected ChangeIntuitionPersonal Growth From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
AgingForgivenessLovePersonal Growth As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
FriendshipLearningLife LessonsPersonal GrowthRelationships Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
ChangePerseverancePersonal GrowthResilienceSelf-awareness Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
IndependenceLearningMotivationPersonal GrowthSelf-education There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
IdentityMindfulnessPersonal GrowthRejectionSlowing Down I don't have a need for speed. I'm not that guy.
AspirationsGoalsLife ChoicesMusicPersonal Growth Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.
BalanceFulfillmentLifeMusicPersonal Growth I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
AccountabilityEfficiencyPersonal GrowthResilienceTransformation We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
AdmirationCommunication SkillsCultural AppreciationLanguage LearningPersonal Growth In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.
EducationHuman CapitalLong-Term VisionPersonal GrowthResponsibility In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Life ImprovementPersonal GrowthSimplification Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
AgingAudienceMusicPerformancePersonal Growth I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
BalanceFocusLiving In The PresentPersonal GrowthPracticality No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
DevelopmentHobbiesMentorshipPassionPersonal Growth I got into running when I was being mentored by my coach. I tried it and developed a passion for it.
ConfidenceIndividualityPersonal GrowthSelf-DiscoverySelf-Expression I felt like my hobbies were so different from my peers, that I came off as an extremely loud person. But then by being shy, I just felt like I hindered myself from becoming the individual that I wanted to be.
Character DevelopmentLeadershipPersonal GrowthResponsibilitySelf-Discipline An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Consequence of actionsMoralityPersonal GrowthResponsibilitySelf-awareness Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.