Quotes about Personal Growth

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.

Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

Ao que parece, crescer trinta e cinco centímetros é fácil, o difícil é conseguir crescer para além de um rótulo.

But you will find your own way to make an impact.

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

Everyone goes on with their lives and maybe I can't keep up. Maybe I don't want to.

growth itself contains the germ of happiness, maybe a germ is enough, maybe its all you need

My mom used to say sometimes it's actually about the other person and you just happen to be there. Like sometimes the other person needs to learn a lesson or go through an experience, good or bad, and you're just an accessory in some way, like a supporting actor in whatever their scene happens to be.

It was funny what you could do in twenty-four hours. You could start the day in one place, married to a man you sometimes liked but most of the time didn't, and you could end the next day in another place, far away, a single woman chasing her dreams. I thought there was some kind of miracle in that.

You can be your best self wherever you are.