Quotes about Personal Growth

THE "HAVE'S" AND THE "BE'S

habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Don't get into a blaming, accusing mode. Work on things you have control over. Work on you. On be

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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.

challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face

Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.

Cuando reconocemos los guiones inefectivos, los paradigmas incorrectos o incompletos que están en nuestro interior, podemos empezar a reescribir proactivamente nuestros guiones

Perhaps I superimposed a higher-level expectation on her simply because on my own scale I was at a lower level. I was unable or unwilling to give patience or understanding, so I expected her to give things. In an attempt to compensate for my deficiency.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.

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, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.

that nurtures the self-esteem and self-worth of each, that creates opportunities for each to mature into independence and then gradually into interdependence? Could synergy not

Of course, we do not live alone on islands, isolated from other people. We are born into families; we grow up in societies; we become students of schools, members of other organizations. Once into our professions, we find that our jobs require us to interact frequently and effectively with others. If we fail to learn and apply the principles of interpersonal effectiveness, we can expect our progress to slow or stop.

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

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

Yo soy la fuerza creativa de mi vida».

And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. T

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results? We'll come back to these answers later. But first, let's put Habit 3 in perspective.

But you just can't do it; you simply have to travel the road. You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.