Quotes about Personal Growth

Whenever you heal any relationship, your whole life improves - and that counts for double with family.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.

Musashi could teach his techniques and give advice, but in the end each disciple was required to assess his own strength, find his own Way, and make that Way truly his own.

"You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest

I learn more from books than from people

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

University of Life. Year One - Advance Adventure Playgrounds. Part One Exam - go to the Third World and survive. No revision, interest, intellect or sensitivity required.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

We feel that we are greater than we know.

I cannot paint what then I was.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

When I 'bout 17 I left Kentucky and goes to Indiana and white folks sends me to school to larn readin' and writin', but I got tired of dat and run off and jine de army. Dat in 1876 and dey sends me to Arizona.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.