Quotes about Personal Growth

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?' But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way

Shakespeare might advise, "The fault is not in our markets, but in ourselves…

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will "naturally" choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Attitude and dealing establish the value of the character that defines a life journey.

Become higher, or lower character figure depends on your behaviour and ability. It does not stay in your rich or powerful status.

Education delivers nothing if you do not educate yourself.

My opponents are a gratis-mirror where I beautify not only my outlook, also inward and outward.

Neither people, nor time teaches the lesson and experience; however, one itself practices the conduct, attitude, behavior, and action that, whether negative or positive, become a lesson and experience, for its life.

Overcome your negative feelings is finding and winning yourself; it defines an actual life.

Shyness blocks and breaks routes toward the fraternizing with others and success of career and life.

The uttermost hard way of the universe is to make yourself the best human.

Whatever I learn from the world, I return that back, as experience and knowledge; thus, I owe nothing.

You still stay travelling today; however, the superior ones completed it already yesterday; thus, reading them and learning from their experiences and insight that constitutes reliability and authenticity.

By experiencing both victory and defeat, running away and shedding tears, a man will become a man. It's okay to cry, but you have to move on.

Instead of wanting to be like this or that, make yourself into a silent, immovable giant. That's what the mountain is. Don't waste your time trying to impress people. If you become the sort of man people can respect, they'll respect you, without your doing anything.

When you're raw you don't want people studying your reactions, even if you've convinced yourself you're just fine. Maybe especially then.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.