Quotes about Personal Growth

Success is what you achieve when you have first defined it for yourself"

The greatest journey in life you will undertake is the one for self awareness. Finding out who you are and what you stand for.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

I am constantly telling my own story to myself, and these days that's about all the narrative flow I can handle.

But regardless, Mr. Meinert looked forward to Wednesday night the way a parent looks forward to seeing a child take those first few steps alone — alone, but not really.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was.

While I'm not claiming that I now feel great love for all people, I can state with some confidence that I hate fewer people than I used to. This may seem like a weak claim to personal growth, but sometimes these things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

It's our scars that make us who we are.

Ja sam više od svojih ožiljaka.

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.

I know that we have grown apart and that's as it should be. We learn what we can from certain people, then we move on after we've taken what we need. When we learn nothing new about ourselves in a relationship that's when the relationship is over. Or it's over the moment when we're afraid to learn something new about ourselves. But what I have been learning about myself ... whatever it was inside me that was sparked and challenged when I first met you ... is deeply connected to this story.

As I said, I'm an unfinished man reassembling the pieces of a broken world, and I have asked you to be a witness because you would never judge me as harsly as I judge myself.

I was at the edge of my experience, and the only way I was going to expend my frontier was to act.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

Well, the announcement to say that I was no longer a member of Vampire Weekend was something that was in the works for a long time. I knew that it was the right choice for me.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

When I was 11, I went to a sports school about an hour from home and stayed there during the week, only going home at weekends. That was hard, but it prepared me before I left for Bilbao; it made me stronger.

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.