Quotes about Personal Growth

Many a times you are faced with a situation where you have to make a decision and challenge yourself. When you do that you really understand your true strength.

I'm grateful for the things I've faced in my career because they make me better - every single one of them.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

I'm glad for my mom making me do 'The X Factor.'

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

I was once a fairly angry person.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I'm still fairly shy in company.

There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

I work on myself all the time, and I'm constantly trying to learn and falling on my face all the time.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

For me, working on the sets with Mani Ratnam is so familiar. It is the place where I grew up, so I am not nervous here.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.