Quotes about Personal Growth

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Why do you want to marry me?" "Because I want this adventure we're on to continue. Because you fill my heart. Because I want you to have that garden.

Art and poetry are humbling in their power to make us bigger people. (From JFK: The Last Speech book)

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

the real wealth of a family is not financial. The primary assets are the family members and their unique talents, knowledge, and experience.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

Leaders are made rather than born.

We begin life on a linear path where success is based on clear targets. Life gets complicated when the targets aren't clear, and you have to set your own. By rubbing up against the world, you get to know yourself. Either do that, or you're going to spend your life serving the interests and expectations of others.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

in prison he regained his old self and displayed an alertness, intelligence, and quick-wittedness such as he had not shown since the early days of the Third Reich.

That is what I mean when I say that we die many deaths in the course of our lives: The teenager in you dies, the college student in you dies, the single unattached you dies, the version of you that's a parent of an infant dies, and so on. Once each of these mini-deaths occurs, there's no going back. Maybe "dies" is a bit harsh, but you get the idea: We all keep moving forward, progressing from one stage or phase of our lives to the next.

have supplied the foundation for recovery. The next two Steps begin the active, day-to-day solution, removing what blocks us from our usefulness to other people and to our Higher Power, and especially (and ultimately) what blocks us from ourselves.

The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.

Arrested personal growth serves industrial "growth". By suppressing the nature dimension of human development (through educational systems, social values, advertising, nature-eclipsing vocations and pastimes, city and suburb design, denatured medical and psychological practices, and other means), industrial growth society engenders an immature citizenry unable to imagine a life beyond consumerism and soul-suppressing jobs.

people don't ever get fixed. They either mature, or they just keep getting more bent up the rest of their lives.

The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.