Quotes about Personal Growth

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.

Jim Rohn has been my favorite speaker for many years. He has changed my life for the better and can change yours too.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Into the sea of yourself like a young dog, and bring out a pearl.

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in this wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

If only she could go back in time, Jule felt, she would be a better person. Or a different person. She would be more herself. Or maybe less herself.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better

You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives.