Quotes about Personal Growth

What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.

he travels fastest who travels alone.

It is not enough that the mess is cleaned up, like a house being prepared for company. We can only be satisfied when the condition of our hearts that led to the mess in the first place is challenged, healed, and turned onto a healthy, Christlike path.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

The only person I know, is the person I want to be

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.

While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.

Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. You'll no longer build your emotional life on other people's weaknesses. In addition, you'll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.

as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself

When we set and achieve goals that are in our Center of Focus, we maximize the use of our time and effort. Interestingly, we find that as we do this over time, our Circle of Influence automatically increases. We find positive ways to influence more people and circumstances.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

First, I would recommend that you not "see" this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.