Quotes about Personal Growth

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

No es el árbol el que abandona a la flor, sino la flor la que abandona al árbol.

Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.

Fourth time's the charm, she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world.

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

I don't think I'm the smart sister, Isabel said. You are, Sophie told her. You just have a lot to learn.

Shelby had thought distance from her hometown would make a difference, but she still feels she's responsible for everything bad that has ever happened in the world. She has bad karma.

I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.

People grow up by living.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.