Quotes about Personal Growth

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In hard times, or even presuccess times, society and at least one cartoonist want you to take care of yourself first. If you pursue your selfish objectives, and you do it well, someday your focus will turn outward.

Books change us automatically, just as any experience does.

c'était moi qui souffrais de troubles du caractère, pas lui. J'étais responsable de mon temps. C'était à moi seul de décider comment je voulais l'utiliser et l'organiser.

Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

it hurts me when we can only travel a short stretch on the same road

E?itim göre göre bizler birer hiç olmu?uz.

Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

All of us resist growth to some extent. It's built in; I'm convinced of it. To paraphrase Tom Hanks's character in the movie A League of Their Own, if growth were easy, everybody would be doing it. But that's what makes it great.

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

True friends influence the personality and attitudes of their friends.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

Non avevo mai avuto l'impressione di crescere all'ombra di mia madre: vivevo nel mio mondo, uno spazio di cui lei aveva delimitato i confini, lasciandomi però libera di riempirlo come meglio credevo. Mia madre viveva come aveva scelto di vivere, e sapevo che il lavoro era la cosa che contava di più per lei, ma questo consentiva anche a me di vivere come volevo e di decidere liberamente cosa contava di più per me...

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

Also, tweak your ideal note-taking template if you feel some aspects aren't working or could be improved upon.

Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.