Quotes about Personal Growth

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.