Sam Heughan Quotes

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

You should do as much stuff as you have the ability to do because it will help you find what you really want to do.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.